The crafting items appear to be the same as drops from enemies in the zone. So, instead of farming gazelle hides until your eyeballs bleed out, you can do a FATE and buy 12 Gazelle Hides (or, rather, the equivalent) right then and there from the vendor (they cost 1 per, and I think HQs cost 2 per).

What I love about this system, though are the RIDING MAPS.

Gone are the days of hoping you can be right next to an A or S rank when it pops, or having to camp hunt reports, or grind out the daily hunts.

Now, you just do 6 FATEs in a zone, and then buy the riding map for 70 stones (you'll have 2 left over from doing the 6 FATEs in the zone to unlock it!).

I already got the one for Il Mheg and I haven't even finished the MSQ in there yet lol.

HUGE thank-you to SE for this Bicolor Stone system.