I've only tried this once, since the server is about to shut down. But I just refined 5 mature firegrass cloth bolts without any input of firegrass bales. The crafting table did not auto-setup, so I decided to go ahead with the recipe, and got 5 bolts anyway. Obviously, it should have auto-setup the table (since I have the autosetup box checked). In any case, it should not have allowed me to proceed without the required inputs.