Highland Potting Fence

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Highland Potting Fence is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Mortar ×15, Growth Formula Zeta ×10 and Distilled Water ×15 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 150 units, plus 91 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,530 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,191 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 80 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 50 Water Crystal, 30 Water Shard, 6 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 60 and Alchemist to Lv 58 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

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