Temperature, Overheating & Wear

Temperature System

The temperature on your farm changes throughout the day. The ambient temperature rises over the course of the day and peaks in the early afternoon. Weather conditions and heatwaves can raise it further.

Every active miner also generates its own heat. More powerful models run hotter, while smaller miners with weaker cooling struggle sooner under high temperatures. Cooling upgrades, a higher facility tier and the cooling tower improve your cooling capacity and help keep operating temperature low.

Each miner model has its own overheat threshold. Once it’s reached, the miner is considered overheated. At critical temperatures, the risk of failure increases.

Heatwaves make things especially challenging for your farm: ambient temperature rises by 12°C, failure probability increases, and power draw goes up.

Wear & Failure

Miners wear down over time. Wear increases during operation and climbs faster at higher temperatures and with overclocking active. This process differs depending on the miner model. Wear also reduces hashrate, and the effect gets progressively stronger: at full wear a miner only delivers about 40% of its output. From roughly 85% wear, the risk of failure rises as well.

Maintenance resets the miner’s wear completely to 0 and caps its temperature at 50°C. Maintenance isn’t possible on already-failed miners.

Repair also resets wear to 0 and sets the temperature to 45°C. This brings a failed miner back into service. After maintenance and repair, the miner initially stays offline and has to be restarted manually.

Details on the maintenance/repair flow: Maintenance, Repair & Installation.