Everseeker's Culinary Knife ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Everseeker's Culinary Knife is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Alexandrian Plate ×3, Maraging Steel Ingot ×3, Black Star ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 46 units, plus 58 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,540 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,675 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 52 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 21 Earth Cluster, 12 Fire Cluster, 9 Ice Cluster and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 100, Armorer to Lv 100, Goldsmith to Lv 98 and Alchemist to Lv 95 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Alexandrian Ore (6:00, 18:00) and Harmonite Ore (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Black Star has the widest use: 161 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.