Deepgold Awl

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Deepgold Awl is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Deepgold Nugget ×2, Bright Linen Yarn ×1 and White Oak Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 32 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 781 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Crystal, 6 Wind Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 71, Carpenter to Lv 71 and Weaver to Lv 71 — 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, Deepgold Nugget has the widest use: 55 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.