You could fix the con by making a seperate power network to power the pumps (and combinators if they need power). Just 1 solar / 1 accu should be enough. Connect the pumps to both your main network and your 1 solar/accu network and you don't need to worry about it. Remember you can shift right click...

In peaceful mode, enemy biters and spitters will attack you if you shoot them, but enemy worms (big, medium and small) won't. They'l just happily sit there while you slowly tickle through their high defense and kill them. This was also the case in 0.12.0, but apparantly was the exact opposite in 0.1...

When I played the game, I entirely skipped the Circuit Network (unlocks smart chest recipie) research because I knew I couldn't use the wires, but when I got to the logistic system related researches (Construction Robots (passive providers and storage), Logistic Robots (passive providers) and Logist...

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It seems to be very inconsistent (I'm in Factorio 0.12.0). I shifted them over one to the left two and the side that previously didn't work started working, and the sided the did work stopped.