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 variant 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, unlocked with credits at steeply scaling costs:

Mission	Unlock cost
1	Available from the start
2	15k
3	400k
4	8M
5	10B

The planet names on the mission pads rotate, but the rewards are fixed per pad (our in-game reads):

Mission	Reward roll
1	50% credits, 40% Default droid, 10% Gold
2	20% Default, 70% Gold, 10% Diamond
3	20% Gold, 70% Diamond, 10% Rainbow
4	20% Diamond, 80% Rainbow
5	80% credits, 15% Rainbow, 5% Beskar

The final mission is still the one that matters — it’s the only pad that can pay Beskar — but mission 4’s 80% Rainbow rate makes it the best guaranteed-droid pad while you’re credit-rich and chip-poor.

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 variant.
• 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-variant 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 — and completing the hard daily challenge pays 1 Nova Crystal, the only crystal income that doesn’t require a Super Rebirth. 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 variant 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 Marshal’s shield if it’s your companion

Pricing: trade-row prices match the droid’s buy cost in the Glossary — and that includes Beskar variants, which are buyable on the trade row (confirmed in-game; it’s the only place you can buy one). Glossary pages now show Beskar buy prices, and Epic/Legendary Beskars are expensive — a Beskar Groundmech runs 112.5M against 14.4M for its Rainbow. For Commons and Rares the buy ladder is ×1 / ×4 / ×8 / ×12 / ×16 of the Default price — confirmed in-game on ID10 and Mouse. (The community tracker mistakenly lists the ×16 Beskar cost in its Rainbow column for those rarities; our Glossary numbers are corrected.)

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 variant 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. This is the single most common mistake — drop into almost any lobby and you’ll see players with droids scattered across the wrong sections, quietly leaving 10% of their income on the table. After every rebirth (when base areas unlock and your layout resets), re-sort your droids into matching areas before doing anything else. Each droid’s type is on its glossary page, so you always know where it belongs.

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, up to 6) but you’re racing everyone; private lobbies spawn fewer with zero competition. A small private squad where everyone cooperates is the best of both; a full public lobby is the most total Beskars if you trust your speed.

Farm high-level lobbies for free droids

One of the fastest ways to pick up Rainbow droids — including Legendaries — for free is to join lobbies with high-level players. Late-game players churn through droids constantly, and a lot of them just drop the ones they don’t need — in their base or on the floor near the Sandcrawler. Walk the area and grab them.

Why it works: a bought or spawned droid doesn’t have to go straight into a slot — players routinely set droids on the ground, and in a high-level lobby those castoffs are often Rainbow (and sometimes Rainbow Legendaries) that would cost you thousands of chips to upgrade yourself. Dropped droids do hit a despawn limit, so move quickly. Public lobbies full of high-rebirth players are the place to look — pair this with farming their Scrap Stations and you’re earning on multiple fronts at once.

Chips vs. Sandcrawler luck

You have two routes to higher variants: grind Upgrade Chips at the Upgrade Station (the building behind the Cantina — chip costs by rarity), 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-variant 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 — an additional guaranteed Beskar drop every 5 minutes (also one per player), on top of the normal 20-minute timer — roughly 5x the guaranteed Beskar rate before counting random spawns. If you’re hunting the set, save your long sessions for these windows.
• Mythic events — a shot at the Mythic tier without spending Nova Crystals. (Since the June 9 update, the Mythics are also permanently purchasable as Iconic Droids via Super Rebirth — events are now the free path, not the only one.)

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 variant always satisfies a lower-variant 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 variant 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 before committing chips or credits to anything long-term
6. At Rebirth 12+: chips and blueprints spent down before a Super Rebirth — they reset; Flawless crafts and Droidex progress don’t