Strategies & Tips

Credits don’t only come from droids

Your factory’s credits per second (CPS) — the passive income your working droids generate — is the engine, but the map pays you to play actively:

• The Scrap Station — hit it for credits. The best early-game income in the game, and it’s endlessly farmable. It levels up over time for bigger payouts, and scrap comes in qualities (gold, diamond, rainbow — likely beskar too) worth more than base scrap.
• The co-op scrap trick — farming someone else’s Scrap Station pays them too. Bring a friend into a lobby and farm each other’s stations: both of you earn from both stations.
• Cantina droid requests — patrons request specific droids and pay well for them (these are separate from selling to the Jawas). A higher version satisfies the request — if they want a Gold and you only have spare Diamonds, that works. Check the board when you’re in for your daily roll.
• Quests with your companion — completing quests around the map grants credits.
• Stormtroopers — defeating them drops credits (and this is where Mister Bones’ 2x damage companion ability earns its slot).
• Missions — see below; the final one is the heart of the chip meta.

Missions: set, forget, collect

Missions are timers, not tasks — start one, go play, check back when it’s done. There are 5 of them (count being confirmed). The final mission is the one that matters, with a reward roll of:

Reward	Odds
Credits	80%
Rainbow droid	15%
Beskar droid	5%

Two things decide your mission throughput:

• Better droids finish missions faster — a Beskar R7 runs the final mission in 6:00 vs 6:40 for weaker droids. The speed scales with the mission droid’s rarity and version.
• The mission slot locks — you can’t swap the droid out mid-mission. So commit a high earner you won’t need elsewhere; don’t send the droid you’re about to upgrade, sell, or equip for the daily roll.

Keep the final mission running at all times; every completion is either credits or a sellable high-version droid.

Daily missions: 3 per day

Once every 24 hours you get 3 daily missions — varied tasks like selling droids to the Jawas or crafting a droid of a specific rarity/tier. They reward blueprints among other things, so fold them into your session routine alongside the free Pit Droid roll.

Blueprints: craft before you sell

Droids often arrive as blueprints (from missions, dailies, and Sandcrawler purchases) that you craft into droids at the build stations. The selling rule of thumb, confirmed across the community: a crafted droid always sells for more than its raw blueprint. The Jawa sell station is opposite the Sandcrawler, on the right-hand side of the Cantina — throw the blueprint (or bring the droid) at the station to sell. Only sell raw blueprints when the craft time isn’t worth the markup.

The chip economy (this changed — most guides are wrong)

Upgrade Chips no longer come from missions. The current sources:

1. Selling Gold, Diamond, Rainbow, and Beskar droids — the primary source
2. Map pickups — they’re scattered around, but collecting them is slow

The current meta: keep the final mission in the Astromech area running (20% chance of a Rainbow or Beskar droid per completion); when it pays out a droid, build it and sell it with BB-8 as your companion — BB-8’s special ability doubles the upgrade chips from the sale. That loop is the fastest chip income in the game right now. Exact chips-per-sale by rarity and version is being researched — numbers coming to this page.

The trade row

A conveyor belt of droids rotates from left to right — buy what you want before it reaches the end, because unbought droids despawn. Two quirks worth knowing:

• You can buy a droid and throw it on the ground (it doesn’t have to go straight to a slot) — though dropped droids still hit a despawn limit, so don’t stockpile carelessly
• Buying from the trade row triggers IG-11’s shield if it’s your companion

Never skip the free daily roll

Inside the Cantina, the Pit Droid on the left side of the bar offers one free roll per 24 hours: a percentage-based chance to bump your equipped companion droid to its next version tier, free.

The play: always equip your rarest, most expensive droid before rolling. A free Legendary Diamond→Rainbow tier is worth 4,000 chips; a free Common upgrade is worth 5. Same roll, 800x difference in value. Over weeks, this single habit saves more chips than any farming route.

Specialist placement: the free 10%

Every droid is a Worker, Astromech, or Battle type, and putting a droid to work in its specialist area earns a 10% credit boost. After every rebirth (when base areas unlock and your layout resets), re-sort your droids into matching areas before doing anything else. It’s free income that most players leave scattered.

Work the Sandcrawler timers

The Jawa Sandcrawler has two countdown timers on top — next guaranteed Beskar spawn (every 20 minutes, one per player in the lobby) and next guaranteed Rainbow spawn (every 5 minutes). Both also spawn randomly between timers, and any Diamond-or-above spawn gets announced in chat with its rarity — so the feed is your radar. Time your base work around the countdowns and never be mid-menu when one pops. Lobby choice matters too: public lobbies spawn more guaranteed Beskars (one per player) but you’re racing everyone; private lobbies spawn fewer with zero competition — details in the Beskar guide.

Chips vs. Sandcrawler luck

You have two routes to higher versions: grind Upgrade Chips at the Upgrade Station (the building behind the Cantina), or wait for upgraded droids to spawn at the Jawa Sandcrawler.

The rule of thumb:

• Common/Rare: let the Sandcrawler do the work. Chip costs are low, but spawns are frequent enough that you’ll fill these naturally.
• Epic and above: grind the chips. High-version spawns at high rarity are too rare to wait on — chips are the reliable path, and rebirth gates won’t wait.
• Spend Legendary chips deliberately. At 400/1,200/4,000 per tier, a misallocated Rainbow upgrade sets you back days. Upgrade the Legendaries your next rebirth levels actually require (check the Progression table) before vanity picks.

Plan around events, not days

Event hours are worth multiples of normal hours:

• Beskar events — boosted odds on the Beskar variant line. If you’re hunting the set, save your long sessions for these windows.
• Mythic events — your realistic shot at the Mythic tier.
• Super Rebirth events — boosted rebirth rewards. If you’re close to qualifying for your next rebirth, hold it and pop it inside the window.

Check the Events page before any long session — if a window opens tomorrow at 5 PM ET, today is for stacking credits and chips, not spending them.

Rebirth requirements are a shopping list

The single biggest efficiency unlock is reading the Rebirth table two levels ahead. Required droids must be active in your base (resting is fine) — and a higher version always satisfies a lower-version requirement, so a Beskar covers every future ask for that droid. For the Legendaries that repeat through the high teens (R7, Mono-WLKR, B2-RP, Mecha-Droid), one Beskar each beats chasing the exact version every level. Players who upgrade by feel stall at level 9 (first Rainbow gate) and level 16+ (Legendary Diamonds); players who shop from the list don’t.

Session checklist

1. Pit Droid free roll used — on your rarest droid
2. Sandcrawler checked for new spawns
3. All droids in their specialist areas (10% boost)
4. Next two rebirth requirements checked — chips going to the right droids
5. Events board checked; rebirth held if a Super Rebirth window is near