pY Atlas
Check two separate requirements: the fluid consumed by the mining recipe and the energy source powering the drill. A drill may need either one, both, or neither kind of fluid. Its name alone does not tell you which.
1. Match the fluid to the selected ore recipe
The table below comes from the guide’s actual mining recipes. Quantities are per listed output batch, not per second. The ore’s recipe page links to its compatible drills and alternatives.
| Mined output | Mining input | Compatible first-tier drill |
|---|---|---|
1  Aluminium ore | 10  Coal gas |  Fluid mining drill MK 01 |
1  Chromium ore | 4  Syngas | Fluid mining drill MK 01 |
1  Lead ore | 10  Acetylene | Fluid mining drill MK 01 |
1  Nickel ore | 4 Syngas | Fluid mining drill MK 01 |
1  Tin ore | 10  Steam (150°C) | Fluid mining drill MK 01 |
1  Titanium ore | 4 Acetylene | Fluid mining drill MK 01 |
1  Zinc ore | 4  Aromatics | Fluid mining drill MK 01 |
1  Rare earth ore | 10  Naphtha |  Rare earth mining drill MK 01 |
Advanced mines and other alternate extraction routes can have different requirements. Open the ore page and select the route you are actually using before piping a fluid to the machine.
2. Supply the drill’s energy separately
The Fluid mining drill MK 01 uses solid burner fuel in the installed prototypes, in addition to the ore-specific mining fluid. Later fluid-drill tiers use electricity. Connecting a pipe alone does not supply a solid burner with energy.
The 
Antimony drill MK 01 is a different case: it consumes combustible fluid as fuel. Its Antimony ore mining recipe lists no separate ore-specific fluid ingredient. A gas can count as a fluid fuel in Factorio.
The installed Antimony drill has no single-fluid fuel filter. Choose one compatible fluid with a positive fuel value; you do not have to supply every fluid in the list. Check the drill item page for the complete supported-fuel list and its power requirement.
Examples of accepted Antimony fuel
Crude oil
Heavy oil
Light oil
Petroleum gas
Methanol3. Check connections and fluid temperature
- Place the correct drill on a compatible resource patch.
- Open the selected mining recipe and identify its input fluid.
- Connect that fluid to the appropriate mining input connection.
- Supply burner fuel, electricity or fluid fuel according to the drill’s energy type.
- Provide a way to remove the mined output.
For tin, the dataset includes several steam-temperature recipe variants. Choose the matching variant on the Tin ore page; a temperature-specific steam recipe should not be treated as interchangeable with every other steam entry.
Filled barrels are transport containers. Unbarrel them into a fluid network when the drill requires a piped fluid; a barrel item is not the same thing as a connected fluid supply.
A powered drill still will not mine?
- Wrong drill for the patch: resource categories limit which machines can mine an ore.
- Power but no progress: verify the recipe’s mining fluid, pipe connection and temperature.
- Fluid present but no power: check the separate fuel or electricity requirement.
- It stopped after producing: clear blocked belts, chests or output inventory.
- Following a vanilla tutorial: Pyanodon changes mining requirements. Check the current pY recipe rather than assuming the vanilla fluid requirement.
Sources, versions and checking
Written from the guide’s recipe export and installed Factorio prototype data, checked 11 November 2026. Recipe quantities use the FactorioLab full-suite snapshot retrieved 3 November 2026 (Factorio 2.1.21, pY Alien Life 3.1.8). Fuel behavior and breeding probabilities were checked against installed Factorio 2.1.24 prototypes with pY Alien Life 3.1.8. Research costs use the guide’s separate resolved technology snapshot.
This is a data-checked walkthrough, not a recorded playthrough. Startup settings, other mod versions and different mod combinations can change recipes. Quantities shown with fractions are expected yields. Base recipe seconds do not include machine speed, fuel or electricity. Follow the linked item pages to compare alternatives.