Planter Partition

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Planter Partition is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Elm Lumber ×4 and Mahogany Lumber ×4 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 33 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,362 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Wind Shard, 5 Water Shard and 4 Lightning Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 39 and Carpenter to Lv 39 — 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, Mahogany Lumber has the widest use: 102 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.