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!

Getting Started

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.

Basic Configuration

1. Keys - How create or import your Chia™ keys into Machinaris on container startup.
2. Pooling - How to create a "PlotNFT" and join a Chia pool, obtaining the keys necessary for plotting.
3. Plotting - Configuring plotting using either the Chia, Madmax or Bladebit plotter.
4. Farming - Farming your plots, validating with both Challenges and Partial Proofs.
5. 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.

Advanced Configuration

• 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.