Archeo Kingdom Codex ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Archeo Kingdom Codex is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Sterling Silver Ingot ×3, Grade 2 Gemsap of Mind ×2, Ipe Lumber ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 40 units, plus 50 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,825 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,466 of the 1,591 Alchemist 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 15 Wind Cluster, 9 Fire Cluster, 8 Water Crystal and 3 other kinds.

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

8 of the 13 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, Sterling Silver Ingot has the widest use: 41 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.