Paper Partition

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Paper Partition is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Dark Chestnut Lumber ×4, Zelkova Lumber ×4, Rose Gold Nugget ×3 and 2 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 59 units, plus 77 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,079 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,413 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 61 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 45 Wind Crystal, 16 Water Shard, 8 Ice Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 69, Goldsmith to Lv 50 and Alchemist to Lv 41 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 8 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.