Well, what is the actual distance in 1x1x1 / 1m blocks from a storage to a crafting table right now? And to be quite honest, I second that request, because I got an 11x11 base with the crafting table in the middle and seem to already have problems with chests in the corners. Or the crushers / spindles getting resources automatically. I don't know how this would impact performance, especially on servers tho. Maybe a 20x20x20 or so would be good for the game, but bad for the performance? Nah, cannot be too hard, even Minecraft does that with mods easily and without draining the server of its juice.