Wooden Showcase

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wooden Showcase is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Oak Lumber ×5, Silver Ingot ×2, Steel Rivets ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 27 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,763 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,005 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 29 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 22 Wind Shard, 10 Fire Shard and 3 Ice Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 32, Blacksmith to Lv 29 and Goldsmith to Lv 23 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Silver Ingot has the widest use: 157 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.