Rustic Chocobo Counter

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rustic Chocobo Counter is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Lignum Vitae Lumber ×6, Manasilver Nugget ×4, Sandteak Lumber ×4 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 63 units, plus 118 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,204 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,434 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 104 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 108 Wind Crystal and 10 Ice Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 80 and Goldsmith to Lv 74 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 5 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, Lignum Vitae Lumber has the widest use: 134 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.