Steppe Kitchen

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Steppe Kitchen is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 8 intermediates — Dark Chestnut Lumber ×4, Cut Stone ×3, Cobalt Joint Plate ×2 and 5 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 80 units, plus 81 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,409 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,483 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 73 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Wind Crystal, 12 Fire Crystal, 10 Fire Shard and 6 other kinds.

The chain crosses six disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 55, Blacksmith to Lv 50, Armorer to Lv 44, Weaver to Lv 42, Goldsmith to Lv 30 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.