Dark Pretzel

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Dark Pretzel is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Maple Sugar ×1, Smooth Butter ×1, Sunset Wheat Flour ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 8 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 690 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Fire Shard and 1 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 23 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 6 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 3 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Table Salt has the widest use: 51 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.