Build your power plant with a bit of free space around it so no power poles connect to it. Built a few steam engines close to the rest of the plant to provide power for the plant itself. Place the remaining steam engines so their power poles don't connect to the power plant and connect it to the ...

Before the change, wood pellets had 12 MJ. Now they have 8 MJ. The new charcoal adapts that decrease factor (12x2,5 = 30 MJ <-> 5x4MJ = 20 MJ), which is fine, because it was very powerful before.

Thanks for the correction, though in my opinion the double power costs for slag seem to be the ...

1. Was the wood block -> charcoal (for fuel) nerfed? I am pretty sure that it was 1 wood block -> 12 charcoal and now it is 1 -> 5, but does the changed fuel value cancel that change out? I do not remember the old values.

The old SeaBlock charcoal was 2.5MJ each, with a conversion ratio of 2.5MJ ...