Ceremonial Codex ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ceremonial Codex is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Octahedrite Nugget ×3, Cronopio Leather ×2, Grade 3 Gemsap of Mind ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 41 units, plus 50 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,923 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,473 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 Earth Cluster, 9 Fire Cluster, 8 Water Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 100, Blacksmith to Lv 100 and Leatherworker 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: Fulgurite (2:00, 14:00), Octahedrite (10:00, 22:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Octahedrite Nugget has the widest use: 67 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.