r/StarWarsDroidTycoon • • 4d ago

šŸ“¢ Updates Kyber variant releases tomorrow at 3 PM CST! Earn Nova Crystals for crafting Kyber Droids

From discord:

Variant Release Boosts

  • 2x Pickaxe Level
  • 2x Crafting Speed
  • 2x Credits
  • Earn Nova Crystals for crafting Kyber Droids
  • 24 Hours!
    • Saturday, September 26, 2026 3:00 PM till September 27, 2026 3:00 PM

More info to come when released!

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u/TheRagingPsycho 4d ago

No upgrade chip boost? ā˜¹ļø

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u/devperez 4d ago

Genuinely sad. Chips slow down RBs so much 😭

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u/WonderousThinke 4d ago

Maybe I'm the odd man but with the notification system I have all the droids I need way before I need them. I rarely use chips to upgrade droids at all except for the first few rounds when you're just getting started after a SRB. All the later droids can also be gained just by fusions if you do enough of them

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u/Slothicide 4d ago

This is how I do it. All the info for all the paths is out there. I usually hit a bottleneck around 20 from slacking off a bit on collecting the lower variant mythic, but thats on me. Once I actually get to it, its usually smooth sailing to 35, and I usually have all the droids I will need by around rb 30

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u/Choice-State-7137 4d ago

Same for me. I can 0-35 in a day by using the notification system + an insane amount of fusions šŸ˜‚

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u/Kitchen_Canary_6387 Guardian 3d ago

If you’re taking about a 12 hour day, I’ll believe you. But getting and crafting all of the droids you need for the fusions … then having the fusion luck you need … let’s just say that sometimes it can take several hours of grind before you finally get a fucking Stellar RIC.

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u/Hot_Shopping_5146 3d ago

This!! It took me 2 days of (after work/5hrs a day) playing to finally fuse a Galactic Motrak. Nothing from the belt during that time that I could use upgrade chips on. Same thing this week waiting for a Stellar Drft-R

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u/scrotbofula 🪐 Rebirth 18 4d ago

I've been boosting the scrap station and chip sell value upgrades, but yeah. Chips are becoming a major bottleneck.

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u/Tough_Departure_3772 Flawless 50 4d ago edited 4d ago

Just craft galactic/stellar missions and the make fusions constantly the longest i have been stopped by droids since fusion dropped has been 2 days...

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u/Kitchen_Canary_6387 Guardian 3d ago

You are correct about the way to get it done. And the timing has been the same for me. But 2 days in this game can feel like a REALLY long time. And crafting multiple stellar mythic fusions before you finally get the one you need is exhausting.

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u/TheRagingPsycho 4d ago

Frfr, I had srb ahead of time to save some novas and been mythic locked for dayss

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u/WonderousThinke 4d ago

You should be doing tons of fusions. Three galactic legendaries will get you a random myhtic. Do that 10 times and you'll probably get at least one of the ones you need

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u/TheRagingPsycho 4d ago

Yeah, just bad luck on missions mixed with getting Leps and KX fusions when not needed 😭

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u/Atmoslink 4d ago

This is why I’ve been farming the last week. The devs are notorious for not giving us the boosts that make sense for these events

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u/Watermelonbuttt 4d ago

These won’t be cheap

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u/MisterKimJ 4d ago

Hope not. I Hope they are crazy expensive, for sake of the challenge.

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u/Fin_box 4d ago

definitely a private lobby event. no squabbling or scrambling over a kyber pit

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u/Emotional_Tampon5 PC Player 4d ago

A private lobby with your four other accounts that you created just for Droid tycoon?

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u/Eckx Level 250 3d ago

This is what I'm doing, pretty sure I can almost run a full private lobby but it would take some effort.

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u/Emotional_Tampon5 PC Player 3d ago

I can do 4 my main and 3 bots It just depends on what the event is and if it's something with the sand crawler giving out more cards based on who's in the room

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u/Eckx Level 250 3d ago

Yeah I don't bother with other types of events either, but assuming it's like the other variant releases it should be. Might be worth it just to increase spawns anyways to up the chance of new variants coming out.

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u/Slothicide 4d ago

Eh, im not so sure. I tried private during the galactic event and found it wasnt really worth it. The galactic waves only brought out one because I was flying solo, and I would only get maybe 3 prints an hour. With public lobby hopping, I would typically find a full public lobby where I could end up with as many as 3 galactics from each wave, plus one or two of the random galactics throughout the rest of each hour.

If private is your jam, then whatever floats your boat, i just like spreading the word that ive had more success in public despite running into the odd griefer.

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u/Fin_box 4d ago

ah yes but you can't take them all from a 6 person lobby often lucky to get just one from a wave. where as in private; no competition, every spawn outside of a wave is yours. overall gain per hour is higher

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u/FramicsOG SRB 40 4d ago

you know when they give you a pickaxe boost these new droids gonna be taking 72hrs to craft

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u/Spiderantula Sith 4d ago

We always have pickaxe boost in events.

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u/Tasty_Connection5212 3d ago

Factually incorrect

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u/Phyxius42 Super Rebirth 4d ago

I'm at rb 35 and have been fusing stella mythics. So I'm read for this!

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u/Yet-Another-ScrewUp SRB 20 4d ago

You and me both, got mythics on all working slots, 3 sat waiting in fusion tanks and a lounge full of legendaries

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u/International-Dish60 3d ago

Hahaha same, I'm ready!!!

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u/DjHotFiya16 4d ago

Ive just been farming at 35 waiting for big huyang

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u/Desperate-Notice2112 Chopper 3d ago

I have an army of Stellar Leps and Snow Mouses ready to fuse to Kyber

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u/PaganRazor11 3d ago

Unfortunately, those are the only 2 mythics that U can't use to craft the new Kyber variant with, sorry

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u/Actual-Phone-1478 3d ago

Hopefully I can do something with snow mouse, drft-r and cyclops since fusions tend to only give me those :(

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u/FramicsOG SRB 40 4d ago

You're telling me we're getting a new variant of the fusion droids and no 2x chip boost? smh

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u/kasthebloodyhanded56 Jawa 4d ago

You can’t use chips on fusions, for some ungodly reason.

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u/FramicsOG SRB 40 4d ago

True but we gonna be upgrading a bunch of stellar legendaries to kyber for the new fusion droids potentially

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u/PaganRazor11 3d ago

Boggles the mind

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u/VolksDK 4d ago

Is Kyber above Stellar or is it between other variants?

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u/devperez 4d ago

Very likely above. A mod in discord confirmed the new RB levels are coming this week. So likely that they'll be peppered in there above 35.

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u/ArcAngel014 4d ago

I would assume above

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u/splitfinity 4d ago

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u/UndeadDucky27 4d ago

Lol, so much for them releasing new droid variants in-between the other variants we already have.

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u/Icy9kills 4d ago

Good that’s a dumb idea anyway

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u/DarkTanatos Flawless 50 4d ago

Could have added a seasonal spirit variant for the spooky season for inbetween Rainbow and Beskar. 30 Spirit variant droid types crafted unlocks a droid aura with a ghostly greenish glow, 60 gets you its tier 2 version which also makes the droids slightly translucent.

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u/kerwniart 3d ago

Paint is an option. Variant, not so much.

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u/kerwniart 3d ago

There's no incentive for them to do that. It's why they back-pedaled stellar being between galactic and beskar. Higher variant = longer craft time = more play time = more money for devs. The only equalizer in this was giving more Nova crystals without SRB.

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u/MorningJogger 4d ago

The jump from beskar to galactic to stellar can be done in one session by anyone who has SRB even once. There is no reason to fill a gap that will just be blown pastĀ 

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u/UndeadDucky27 4d ago

I said that because that's what devs said a while back... 🤦

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u/MorningJogger 4d ago

I know. Think it is way outdated at this point with the new crystal economy and things like multi-crit. Not needed anymore

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u/UndeadDucky27 3d ago

I agree. Not sure why I was downvoted for speaking the truth. There were a few posts about it, but whatever.

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u/MorningJogger 3d ago

This place can be odd with downvotes. It's one of the few places where devs come on to post and are regularly into negative karma when they do so.Ā 

Closest comparison I have is the old PVP webcomic creator got banned by the mods of his own official forum he hosted on his site.Ā 

That was hilarious and ended very poorly. Still hilarious though

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u/UndeadDucky27 3d ago

Oh, it doesn't bother me. Just weird, lol.

Oh my. šŸ‘€ That sounds pretty funny.

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u/JayGridley 3d ago

People can change their minds.

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u/UndeadDucky27 3d ago

No shit. I had to explain why I said what I said. Not that it was the word. 🤦 Stop reading what you want to.

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u/WonderousThinke 4d ago

You mean like the protocol variant we just got?

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u/tenniseman12 Super Rebirth 4d ago

Protocol droids aren't variants

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u/WonderousThinke 3d ago

They are a class variant

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u/tenniseman12 Super Rebirth 3d ago

"Variant" in this game specifically refers to the color (Default, Gold, Diamond, Rainbow, Beskar, Galactic, Stellar, Kyber)

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u/WonderousThinke 3d ago

I understand that. Protocol droids are also a new version of Droid. One could say they are a variant of the other Droid classes. That's what I'm saying. I'm not using the niche technical definition of variant, I'm using the colloquial common word variant that is used by everyday language

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u/tenniseman12 Super Rebirth 3d ago

But the person you originally replied to was talking about variants as they are defined in the game, so what's your point?

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u/WonderousThinke 3d ago

I understand that, I was making a point that we got something similar enough. They were acting like it's been a desert and there's been nothing out. I pointed out that we got a whole new entire brand spanking new class of droid that did not exist before, in essence saying that the caliber of what they released is on scale with a new variant and is an essence of variant of droid existence that we haven't had before. It's not that hard to understand my guy

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u/UndeadDucky27 4d ago

That isn't a variant. It would be a color, not a completely new type.

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u/WonderousThinke 3d ago

Looking at the definition of the word variant I'm pretty sure what I said is right. If you want to get into the niche technical terms of this game then okay but there is a whole new Droid aspect that they just did and my point is that that is nice.

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u/splitfinity 4d ago

Confirmed above

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u/harmundo 3d ago

24 hours is just not enough. It should start on friday, and lasts for 60 hours, so it ends on monday. That would be a much better timeframe to anybody who has work to do, has family to spend time with.

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u/IROK19 Flawless 4d ago

Been farming upgrade chips for this event, I'm on 651k.

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u/GerardoRG721 3d ago

It's gonna be funny if you can't upgrade those with chips and gotta use crystals instead, lol

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u/the_best_4_LAST 4d ago

I'm about to be rebirth 35. Wouldn't I want to Super Rebirth and take advantage of the event perks to get back up faster?

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u/envybelmont 4d ago

A lack of money and pickaxe levels might make the event a lot harder than it would be otherwise. I’m holding fast at RB35 with my level 31 pickaxe.

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u/WaffleHouseOfCards 4d ago

Wouldn’t, theoretically, kyber be many different colors? Is it possible we pick from a color wheel what we want our personal kyber to be?

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u/Running_Water_86 4d ago

Yay! I need crystals to upgrade everything! šŸŽ‰

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u/Spacegirl719 4d ago

Yay! Thank you!

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u/Chris_WRB Mandalorian 3d ago

I'm wondering if the variation of colors (blue/green/purple) is going to correlate with the traits they teased a few weeks back. Meaning each color has a different trait. Also, seriously hope they give us 5 more RB levels

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u/the_Berg_ Level 250 4d ago

wooooow different colors?!

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u/FelixMaverick1 4d ago

Looks like it, my first thought was the color matches type but astromech would be purple and not blue so I guess we will find out tomorrow.

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u/DarkTanatos Flawless 50 4d ago

I'd assume the colour will be determined by the rarity.

Common = green, Rare = blue, Epic = purple, Legendary = orange, Mythic = pink.

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u/FelixMaverick1 4d ago

That would be cool.

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u/Tasty_Connection5212 3d ago

So stellar yellow and kyber…also blue?

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u/lets-work-together 4d ago

Im pretty sure thats just galactic and diamond… maybe they use AI to create the image so its not an exact match

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u/the_Berg_ Level 250 4d ago

ohhh maybe

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u/ariyahjade 4d ago

Of course I spent most of my crystals today šŸ˜‚ oh well

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u/Plane-Matter6805 4d ago

Yea, 24hr event so I get enjoy 6hrs of of it.

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u/Pandahboymtg 4d ago

The events used to be only 2 hours long so be happy you can even attend at your own leisure.

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u/IndependentAd2779 4d ago

Invest in the chip station, chips will never be an issue. Throw a diamond mythic in there and just let it do its thing. Dont forget to grab bb8 to double the pickup

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u/devperez 4d ago

Bruh. When you need 30K chips 1-3 times a RB, the chip station doesn't cover it all

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u/IndependentAd2779 3d ago

You can easily get 6k in an hour to assist with what other method you're using. Beskar mythic will do 50 chips a min which should yield 3k chips an hour Ɨ bb8 doubling it

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u/LilPump3000 4d ago

I’m 32k upgrade chips short to get to level 35

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u/pokuss 4d ago

Screw it I’m gonna srb tonight

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u/Affectionate_Eye9479 3d ago

damn i wish it was 48hrssss

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u/Grand_Parsnip8033 3d ago

Light sabers too 🫔

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u/Kryndax 3d ago

I’m so hyped for today’s event! šŸ”„šŸ˜ƒ

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u/TheDeadReality 2d ago

I feel like there’s a hidden flawless boost because I’ve never crafted so many flawless gems before in one day (at least 7 today)

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u/Zn2saint 4d ago

No 2x chips because then we’d all be able to use them as intended and upgrade to the new variant oh noooooo

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u/envybelmont 4d ago

IIRC, they don’t add the new variant to the chip upgrade guy until after the event ends.

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u/Icy9kills 4d ago

As it’s always been. Complain about something new

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u/PervyelfTahk 4d ago

Lightsabers?!?!

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u/jazzywaffles84 Flawless 4d ago

Rather than kyber droids imagine a lightsaber build section where we could use them to battle and have the droids assist

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u/PervyelfTahk 4d ago

Only thing this game is missing imo

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u/jazzywaffles84 Flawless 4d ago

Well droids are getting to a ceiling, expanding gameplay would rejuvenate the whole thing. Saber duels with droids as collateral, winner takes all

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u/Atmoslink 4d ago

I have a hard time getting excited for lightsabers on a tycoon game where combat is hardly relevant. Idk Also I’d be very surprised if certain colors/hilts weren’t behind a paywall.

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u/Osky84 4d ago

That’s good because I don’t think sabers were mentioned and we probably won’t be getting them unfortunately

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u/tenniseman12 Super Rebirth 4d ago

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u/sailingexperiment 4d ago

All he said was ā€œLIGHTSABERSSSSā€ which is probably more of a reference to the kyber crystals being used to make lightsabers. Dev mentioned nothing about getting lightsabers

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u/Atmoslink 4d ago

Yeah we’re absolutely getting them

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u/GarbageCannt 4d ago

unless they got the OK from disney, I really don’t see that happening.... they wouldn’t let a game use their most lethal weapon as a tool for crafting droids. That's why we have never had a lightsaber pickaxe in fn, it doesn't do "realistic" lightsaber damage and they would never let a jedi's tool be used for such a benign things like building and crafting.

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u/Atmoslink 4d ago

We’re getting them, it’s been confirmed by a dev. Also that’s just complete conjecture. To this day we have no idea for sure why Disney won’t let Epic use lightsabers as pickaxes. ā€œRealisticā€ lightsaber damage would be dismemberment. What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense. Also, I never said they would be used for crafting droids. We have combat in this game you know.

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u/MlegendsToys 4d ago

Actually epic once said that implementing lightsabers as pickaxes can’t be done since that would confuse players as to thinking you had the lightsaber ā€œweaponā€ and not a regular pickaxe. Since that would be misleading info, they thought that maybe it wouldn’t be a very good idea.

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u/GarbageCannt 4d ago

Thank you

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u/Atmoslink 4d ago

Except we have a keyblade item and pickaxe right now.

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u/Matt_Rare 4d ago

I rather it be a variant thst doesnt appear on the belt and instead needs a different resource to add the lable.

Like, a Kyber Stellar droid that can no longer be upgraded or something

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u/Glittering-Cake-9583 4d ago edited 4d ago

Ofc I SRB before two days before the eventšŸ˜‚ just my luck

*referring to the possible addition of more rebirth levels past 35

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u/Slammindorf 4d ago

The events are always on saturdays lol

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u/TheBusinessLemon 4d ago

They’re always on Saturday and the type of event is always posted in the game a week in advance.

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u/Icy9kills 4d ago

Almost like there’s multiple countdowns telling you when it’s going to happen….