Stonegold Astrometer

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Stonegold Astrometer is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Imperial Jade ×2, Stonegold Nugget ×2, Deepgold Nugget ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 45 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,645 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 34 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 28 Wind Crystal, 11 Fire Crystal and 6 Water Crystal.

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

6 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Raw Imperial Jade (6:00, 18:00) 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.