Droid Tycoon Super Crate Farming Guide

How do you farm Rainbow Super Crates in Droid Tycoon?

A Super Crate respawns as the same rarity you just opened, so opening Gold and Diamond crates parks them outside your area. Clear one cluster of spawn points, then farm the two Rainbow crates there and recheck nearby spawns after every open.

Buy Super Crates level 3 before trying the route; Rainbow crates do not spawn without it.

The short answer

A Super Crate respawns as the same rarity you just opened, so opening a Gold crate gives you another Gold crate rather than a chance at a Rainbow. Open the Gold and Diamond crates until they respawn outside a chosen cluster of spawn points, leave them parked there, then farm the 2 Rainbow crates inside the cluster and recheck nearby spawns after every open instead of flying a lap.

Rainbow crates are the only Super Crate that can pay Nova Crystals, at a recorded 2.1% chance once every Rainbow hat is owned, or 0.563% while unowned hats still fill the pool. This route does not improve either number. It increases how many Rainbow crates you reach per hour.

Do not buy companions for this route. The Super Crates track is the only thing it needs. This guide used to tell players to run DJ R-3X and BB-8 for a 2x/4x crate payout, and that advice was wrong — read the correction below before spending 310 Nova on it.

What the route costs before it works

Rainbow crates are not on a default account. They unlock on the third Super Crates level in the Nova Shop, and that is the entire cost of the route: 85 Nova. Nothing else on this page is a prerequisite.

If you have bought one or two Super Crates levels and have never seen a Rainbow crate, that is why. The track is 85 Nova cumulative and the Rainbow unlock is the last level.

How Super Crate spawns work

8 Super Crates sit on the map at once, and that population appears to stay constant. When you open one, another crate of the same rarity immediately respawns at one of the available Super Crate spawn locations, and it can reappear in the exact spot you just cleared.

Regular crates appear to use their own separate spawn locations, so they do not interfere with the setup and you can ignore them while clearing.

The shop wording and the observed population do not agree

The Super Crates level 3 card reads "Unlock Rainbow Crates · Gold 60% · Diamond 30% · Rainbow 10%". The map behaves like a fixed population of 3 Gold, 3 Diamond, 2 Rainbow instead, which is 25% Rainbow by count rather than 10%.

Those describe different things, and Droidex has not verified how a spawn roll and a live population connect, so neither number is presented as the other. The route only depends on the respawn rule, which is directly observable.

Why Rainbows are the only target

Gold and Diamond crates still pay Credits and Upgrade Chips, but Rainbow crates pay more of both and are the only Super Crate that can drop Nova Crystals. The one-hour test recorded a rougher reward split than the reference pool does, and both are worth seeing.

The observed column is one hour of one route, so the gap is what a small sample looks like rather than evidence that the pool changed. The recorded column removes Rainbow hat results, which is the distribution an account rolls against once every Rainbow hat is owned.

Setting up the farming area

You are getting the Gold and Diamond crates to occupy spawn locations you do not care about, so that as many spawn points near you as possible stay open for Rainbows.

• Pick a cluster of Super Crate spawn points that sit close enough to check without a map-length flight. The tested route starts near the beginning of the Ringmaster Course.
• Fly the cluster and open every Gold and Diamond Super Crate in it.
• Keep going until most of those Gold and Diamond crates have respawned somewhere outside the cluster.
• Leave them there. A Gold or Diamond crate parked outside your area occupies a spawn point you do not care about, and it stays parked until somebody opens it.
• Leave the two Rainbow crates alone while you are still clearing.
• Clear Hostile Takeover out of the area first if it is sitting in the cluster you want.

Any part of the map works if it has several Super Crate spawn points close together. What you are looking for is a cluster you can recheck quickly, not a specific landmark.

Correction: the companion advice was wrong

This guide used to say Super Crates are World Quests, and to buy the Companion Slot (250 Nova), BB-8 (30 Nova) and DJ R-3X (30 Nova) so that the DJ R-3X multiplier would double every crate reward. The first claim is false, and the purchase advice rested entirely on it.

A World Quest is a specific, small system: the droid combat, defence and interaction objectives that appear on the map, each of which drops loot where it is completed. Super Crates are a separate system that places crates on their own spawn points. A Super Crate is not a World Quest, so "2x World Quest Rewards" has no established route to a crate reward.

The recorded BB-8 effect is 100% Upgrade Chips, and that effect is scoped to Upgrade Chips the player picks up — the chips lying on the ground and the ones Scrap produces. A crate hands over chips through a different path, and Droidex has not been able to show BB-8 reaching it.

What Droidex can and cannot show

Settled: Super Crates are not World Quests, and each companion effect is scoped to something a Super Crate is not. Not settled: a flat claim that these companions do nothing, which needs more than the card text to support.

One loose end points the other way. A single crate open can award up to 2 rewards, and that cap is in the game rather than inferred. A Rainbow Nova result is 3 crystals, and the recorded hour banked 6 on its one drop, which the two-reward cap explains on its own with no companion involved.

If you already own these companions, keep running them. What changed is the recommendation to buy them for this route. Test before spending: open ten Rainbows with BB-8 equipped and ten without, then compare the chip totals.

Farming the Rainbows

The travel time between opens is what this route optimises, so the movement pattern matters more than the sweep order.

• Sweep the cluster and open a Rainbow crate the moment you see one.
• Recheck the nearby spawn points immediately, including the spot you just opened.
• Double back rather than continuing in one direction. A Rainbow can respawn behind you or where you just were.
• When both Rainbows respawn outside the cluster, lap the map, open them, and give the spawn system another roll at putting one back inside.
• Return to the cluster as soon as one comes back. Do not restart the setup and do not start opening parked Gold and Diamond crates again.

Sometimes you will open both Rainbows and have one or both respawn back inside the cluster. That is the good case. Losing both to the far side of the map is the normal cost of the route, not a broken setup.

What wastes the most time

• Smashing every Super Crate you fly past. Opening a Gold crate returns a Gold crate; the rarity does not reroll, so it is a spawn point you just re-entered the lottery for.
• Opening the Gold and Diamond crates you deliberately parked outside the cluster. They are doing their job by sitting there.
• Flying one large lap after every Rainbow open, which walks away from a crate that may have respawned within seconds of you.
• Waiting for a perfect setup. Most of the Gold and Diamond crates out of the area is enough for the route to work.

Public or private lobby?

A private lobby is not required. The one-hour test used one so the results could be tracked without interference, but the method works in public lobbies.

The one thing that breaks it is another player farming Super Crates the ordinary way. Every Gold and Diamond crate they open can respawn inside the area you cleared, and enough of that turns a compact Rainbow route back into a map-wide hunt.

What one hour actually gave

One recorded hour of this route, running both companions, in a private lobby.

At the recorded 2.1% chance, a Nova drop averages about one per 48 Rainbow crates opened, or about one per 178 before any Rainbow hats are owned. One drop in an hour is what that rate looks like.

The run did not record how many crates were opened, so Droidex is not publishing a crates-per-hour figure from it. Credits and Upgrade Chips are the reliable output of this farm; Nova is the lottery ticket you get more of by opening faster.

Super Crates are not Mega Crates

Mega Crates are a separate system on a schedule, and v1.24.1 restored their appearances at 00:00 and 00:30. Nothing in this route changes Mega Crate timing, and the same-rarity respawn rule does not apply to them.

Keep going

Super Crate spawn counts, the respawn rule, and the reward rates can all change in a Droid Tycoon update. v1.25 already buffed crate Upgrade Chip payouts and raised the Rainbow Nova chance once, so this guide describes current behaviour and is retested when the mechanics move.