Red Brick Counter

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Red Brick Counter is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Clinker Bricks ×5, Firebricks ×4, Lignum Vitae Lumber ×3 and 2 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 52 units, plus 68 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,890 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,540 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 54 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 33 Water Shard, 21 Wind Crystal, 7 Lightning Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 80 and Carpenter to Lv 78 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 8 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, Mortar has the widest use: 140 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.