# madMAx43v3r/chia-plotter

Repository: https://github.com/madMAx43v3r/chia-plotter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/chia-plotter
Language: C
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-04-28T06:40:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1929, "days_push": 857, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2215, forks 622 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:27.112410+00:00)

## What it is
A high-performance, pipelined multi-threaded Chia plotter written in C that creates proof-of-space plot files for the Chia blockchain. It uses a GPU-like processing pipeline with CPU threads to saturate storage device bandwidth.

## Use cases
- create chia plots faster than the official plotter
- maximize disk bandwidth when plotting chia
- batch-generate multiple chia plots unattended
- plot for chia pools with a contract address
- reduce plotting RAM usage with bucket tuning
- write plots directly to a RAM drive tmpdir

## When to choose
- you need the fastest available CPU-based chia plotting performance
- you want fine-grained control over threads, buckets, and temp directories
- you plot for pools and need contract address support
- you want graceful batch plotting with parallel final-dir copying

## When to avoid
- you need a GUI plotting tool
- you plot for blockchains other than Chia, Chives, or MMX
- you want a maintained tool with ongoing feature development
- you are not comfortable compiling C code from source

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, cryptography, developer-tools
- domain: blockchain, performance
- platform: windows, cli, cpp
- tags: chia, plotting, proof-of-space, blockchain-storage, multithreaded, cryptocurrency, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- madMAx43v3r/chia-plotter (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:27.112410+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:45:58.435943+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/madMAx43v3r/chia-plotter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:27.112410+00:00, sha 6e8d577f5ab5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.