Made factory on second floor. One swift left click with a stick in hand on the crafting table opens up the recipie selection menu, and if you click on the painting to get to the details menu then the crafting table there it shows all the recipies. Clicking on those will show what is required for the recipies. The stuff on the rows two rows below input materials tells you what needs to be in the chests to activate the factory and the number of Bottles o' Enchanting in the recipe indicates the amount of those you need to place in the upper part of the furnace. When the recipe is set up, single left click the furnace and the factory will activate. You will occasionally need to run the repair function, but that would be only rarely.
Bottles o' Enchanting can be gotten from right clicking a enchanting table when you have xp on you.
Everyone get that? I now expect that no furnaces are used, because factories are insanely good at producing stuff. A lot of recipies give you 3x what you would get via regular smelting, and in some cases crafting (ex. One option turns four glowstone and sixteen redstone into 32 redstone lamps).
Edit: I have the supplies for an enchanting table. I will be waiting on a diamond to reinforce it, though, before I place it down.
Speaking of reinforcing stuff. Use /ctr with a block of stone, iron, or diamond to reinforce stuff in your name (only you can access in this case, requires breaking block an increasing number of times, depending on material, for others to actually destroy the block), and use /ctr TwelfthBayConfed to reinforce stuff to be only accessible to members of the Twelfth Bay Confederation.
Edit2: If people want to know where I put the valuables storage, contact me in the game and I can show you.
Edit3: And if someone could give me a redstone next time I'm on, I've got the perfect place to drop a Snitch that'll help us track griefers.