Wax Vegetables

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wax Vegetables is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Ash Lumber ×1 — which resolves to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 3 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 599 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 1 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 1 Fire Shard, 1 Water Shard and 1 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Culinarian to Lv 15 and Carpenter to Lv 10 — 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, Ash Lumber has the widest use: 60 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.