So after a Discord discussion with Mischief Of Mice he has suggested an interesting addition to Woot.

I hadn't appreciated how much of a pain it was to build the factory blocks, especially with the forcing the manual killing of mobs to create the blocks for the next tier. So he has suggested an interesting alternative.

• Each factory tier will produce a byproduct that can be used to build the next tier blocks
• The byproduct will have a low drop rate which will be configurable
• The recipes will be an alternative to the current ones which will continue to exist
• The alternative recipes can be disabled with a config option which will default to enabled.

Need recipes for Blaze Casing, Ender Casing, Nether Casing.
Both Flesh and Bone Casings will remain the standard one, since you don't actually need a lot of them.

Items will be "Tier II Shard", "Tier III Shard", "Tier IV Shard".
Recipes will be "Factory Casing + Blaze Rod" or "Factory Casing + Tier II Shard" etc.

Tier 1 factories will drop Tier 2 shards.
Tier 2 factories will drop Tier 2 and Tier 3 shards.
Tier 3 factories will drop Tier 2 and Tier 3 and Tier 4 shards.
Tier 4 factories will drop Tier 2 and Tier 3 and Tier 4 shards.

allowShardRecipe - default to true. Setting to false removes all factory block recipes using the shards and disables factory generating the shards.

r2ShardDrop = 15 - 15% chance of dropping a Tier 2 shard
r3ShardDrop = 8 - 8% chance of dropping a Tier 3 shard
r4ShardDrop = 5 - 5% chance of dropping a Tier 4 shard