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Hi all, as an update on the future of Machinaris, I want to set everyone's expectations for CNI group's plans for Chia's new plot format. Machinaris is essentially a bundling of various tools and forks that sprouted up around Chia when it first appeared years ago. With the loss of interest in Chia, all those related tools have been dropped by their authors.
As well, my own interest in the Chia ecosystem has waned considerably, so I simply don't want to invest a lot of upcoming time in trying to patch all the various old tools (plotman, chiadog, madmax, gigahorse, bladebit, etc...) that will inevitably break/change when CNI's new plot format finally drops.
I think this will likely mean the end of this project. For those that want to continue running Machinaris against the current format plots, using Chia 2.5.X, that should be possible until CNI releases an urgent security fix or some other backwards-incompatible change. Thanks everyone for the support over the years, it's been fun.
Welcome to the Machinaris wiki! Building upon the official Chia™ binaries, Machinaris bundles the Plotman plotting manager and Chiadog log monitor along with a simple WebUI:
Powerful plotters like Madmax and Bladebit are also included, along with various forks for double-farming. Drive health monitoring too!
Installation instructions are available for many platforms:
- Windows
- MacOS - both Intel and Apple Silicon supported.
- Linux - including Ubuntu and others
- RaspberryPiOS
- Unraid, Synology, and QNap
- and other Docker via
docker compose
Start a Discussion or join our Discord for support and to help out.
- Keys - How create or import your Chia™ keys into Machinaris on container startup.
- Pooling - How to create a "PlotNFT" and join a Chia pool, obtaining the keys necessary for plotting.
- Plotting - Configuring plotting using either the Chia, Madmax or Bladebit plotter.
- Farming - Farming your plots, validating with both Challenges and Partial Proofs.
- Monitoring - Tracking your farm's daily progress. Receiving alerts and notifications of events.
Questions? Read the FAQ and Troubleshooting pages. Then start a Discussion or join our Discord for support.
- Workers: Managing the farming and plotting on multiple Machinaris systems, all from a single WebUI.
- Forks: Multi-farming the same plots on other blockchains too.
- Proxying: Exposing Machinaris WebUI behind a Nginx web server, such as SWAG.
- Monitoring: Advanced dashboards for additional insight into your farm, including Farmr and Grafana.
- Scaling: Deployment on hundreds workers (forks), harvesting many tens of thousands of plots, totaling many petabytes of storage.
- Hardware: Tips on hardware configuration for Machinaris specifically and Chia in general.