White Oak Rod

Taken all the way down to base materials, one White Oak Rod is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — White Oak Lumber ×2, Growth Formula Iota ×1, Rhodonite ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 22 units, plus 41 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,402 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 849 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 30 Wind Crystal, 6 Water Crystal and 5 Ice Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 71, Alchemist to Lv 71 and Goldsmith to Lv 71 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Raw Rhodonite (8:00, 20:00) and Gold Ore (9:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Stonegold Nugget has the widest use: 90 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.