Wooden Steps

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wooden Steps is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Mythril Rivets ×2, Rosewood Lumber ×2, Varnish ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 22 units, plus 57 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,402 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 849 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 46 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Shard, 18 Wind Shard, 16 Water Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 45, Alchemist to Lv 41 and Blacksmith to Lv 39 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Mythril Ingot has the widest use: 135 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.