Violin Showcase

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Violin Showcase is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Spruce Lumber ×7 and Maple Lumber ×4 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 37 units, plus 81 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,564 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,209 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 56 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 49 Wind Crystal, 28 Ice Crystal and 4 Wind Shard.

Every step is Carpenter work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 80 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 4 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Spruce Log (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Spruce Lumber has the widest use: 60 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.