Getting Started

The core loop

Everything in Droid Tycoon revolves around one number: credits per second (CPS). Every droid in your base generates credits passively, and everything you do — collecting droids, upgrading them, rebirthing — exists to push that number up.

The loop:

1. Collect droids. New droids spawn at the Jawa Sandcrawler — check it regularly.
2. Put them to work. A working droid earns its CPS. Placing a droid in its specialist area (Worker, Astromech, or Battle) earns a 10% credit boost — never leave that on the table.
3. Upgrade your best droids with Upgrade Chips to multiply their output.
4. Rebirth when you hit the requirements — a permanent boost to credit income plus new base areas to fill with droids.

Droid basics

Every droid has two properties that matter:

• Rarity — Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary, or Mythic. Rarity sets the droid’s base CPS; an Epic earns roughly 10–50x what a Common does.
• Version — Base → Gold → Diamond → Rainbow → Beskar. Each version doubles the CPS of the one before, so a Rainbow droid earns 8x its Base version (Beskar, the new top tier, is still being measured).

Your early Commons (Mouse, Pit, Gonk, CB, R3…) feel weak fast, but don’t ignore them — specific droids at specific versions are Rebirth requirements, so the “useless” droid in your collection may be exactly what gates your next prestige.

Early credits: hit the Scrap Station

Before your factory generates real income, the Scrap Station is your best friend — hitting it pays credits directly and outearns your starter droids by a wide margin. Work it between Sandcrawler checks and put the proceeds into your first upgrades. (More active income sources — Cantina requests, quests, stormtroopers — in the Strategies guide.)

Your first goal: Rebirth 1

Rebirth 1 needs 10,000 credits plus three Common droids active in your base: CB (Base), Pit (Base), and DRK-1 Probe (Base). The droids only need to be present — they can sit in the rest area.

Most players hit this naturally in their first session. Do it as soon as you qualify: every rebirth permanently boosts your credit income and opens new areas of your base, and the first few levels are cheap (see the Progression guide for the full 23-level table).

Three beginner habits that pay off

• Visit the Cantina daily. The Pit Droid on the left side of the bar gives you a free percentage-chance roll at your equipped companion droid’s next version tier — once every 24 hours, completely free. Always spend it on your rarest droid.
• Whack your building droids. Hitting a droid that’s mid-build with your pickaxe shaves seconds off the build timer per hit. Never stand around waiting for a build.
• Check the events board. Limited-time events boost drop and upgrade odds well beyond normal play — the Events page tracks what’s coming.

What’s next

Once Rebirth 1 is done, the game opens up. Head to the Progression Path for the full rebirth ladder and where most players stall.