Archeo Kingdom Scepter ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Archeo Kingdom Scepter is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Ipe Lumber ×3, Grade 2 Gemsap of Intelligence ×2, Sterling Silver Ingot ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 40 units, plus 50 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,825 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,232 of the 1,552 Carpenter 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 18 Wind Cluster, 12 Ice Cluster, 8 Wind Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 100, Alchemist to Lv 100 and Goldsmith to Lv 100 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Fine Silver Ore (10:00, 22:00), Ipe Log (0:00, 12:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Claro Walnut Lumber has the widest use: 82 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.