R8

Common Astromech

R8 is a Common Astromech droid in Star Wars: Droid Tycoon. Full buy cost, sell value, credits-per-second, and rebirth requirements at every variant.

Variants & economy

Buy / craft cost, the chips to upgrade into each tier, earnings, and what it sells back for. Sell chips double with BB-8 equipped.

Variant	Buy / craft	Upgrade	Earns	Sell (credits)	Sell (chips)
Default	3k	—	4/s	2.1k	—
Gold	12k	5 chips	8/s	8.4k	4
Diamond	24k	10 chips	16/s	16.8k	7
Rainbow	36k	15 chips	32/s	25.2k	10
Beskar	48k	80 chips	48/s	33.6k	13

Each tier doubles the last; Beskar breaks the pattern (×1.5 over Rainbow for Commons/Rares, ×4.25 for Epics, ×3 for Legendaries). Credit sell value is ~70% of buy cost. Buy prices apply on the trade row — including Beskar, which can't be bought anywhere else. Numbers reflect the current balance patch.

Note: Common Rainbow prices follow a ×12-of-Default pattern confirmed in-game (ID10 and Mouse trade-row reads) — the community tracker mistakenly lists the ×16 Beskar cost there. Derived values are marked by the pattern — corrections land same-day.

Specialist placement

R8 is a Astromech droid — put it to work in the Astromech area for a free +10% to its credits. Most players leave droids scattered in the wrong sections and quietly lose that bonus.

Rebirth requirements

Since the June 9 update, requirements cycle through four paths, one per Super Rebirth (dev-confirmed: 1→2→3→4, then repeat) — all four are now mapped. Listed variant or higher — a higher variant always satisfies a lower-variant requirement.

Path 1 — first run

Not a gate on this path.

Path 2 — after 1st Super Rebirth

Not a gate on this path.

Path 3 — after 2nd Super Rebirth

Path 4 — after 3rd Super Rebirth

Tip: the highest variant asked for across all four paths is Diamond. Get R8 to that tier once and every requirement is covered for good.

See the Droidex guide for earnings mechanics and Flawless odds, the Rebirth ladder for the full gate list, and Strategies for chip farming and the Sandcrawler timers.