Pactmaker's Needle ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Pactmaker's Needle is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Eblan Danburite ×3, Rhodium Ingot ×3 and Integral Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 44 units, plus 50 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,337 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,982 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 44 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 21 Fire Cluster, 21 Wind Cluster and 8 Wind Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 90 and Carpenter to Lv 88 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Raw Eblan Danburite (0:00, 12:00) and Rhodium Sand (4:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Integral Lumber has the widest use: 114 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.