Oriental Grass Plot

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Oriental Grass Plot is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Growth Formula Zeta ×5 — which resolves to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,387 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 30 Water Crystal and 5 Lightning Crystal.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 58 intermediate up to the Lv 59 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: Red Quartz (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Growth Formula Zeta has the widest use: 10 recipes call for it, spanning three of the eight crafting classes.