Indagator's Earrings of Crafting ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Indagator's Earrings of Crafting is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Ilmenite Ingot ×2, Paldao Lumber ×2 and Zoisite ×2 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 42 units, plus 46 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,044 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,260 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 36 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 17 Wind Cluster, 12 Fire Cluster, 11 Ice Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

3 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Ilmenite (8:00, 20:00), Paldao Log (2:00, 14:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Ilmenite Ingot has the widest use: 73 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.