Hingan Placard (Nanpu)

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Hingan Placard (Nanpu) is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Rose Gold Nugget ×4, Zelkova Lumber ×4, Varnish ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 42 units, plus 58 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,044 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,260 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 48 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 37 Wind Crystal, 16 Water Shard and 5 Ice Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 68, Goldsmith to Lv 50 and Alchemist to Lv 41 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.