Droid Tycoon Nova Shop Upgrade Guide

What should I buy first with Nova Crystals?

Start with Credits Level 1 for 2 Nova, Blueprint Scrap Level 1 for 1, then Scrap Value Level 1 for 25. v1.26 also adds 120-crystal Credit Sell Bonus and 480-crystal Chip Sell Bonus tracks; Multi Crit now costs 4,000 total.

Choose Daily Quest Crystals once Nova, rather than Upgrade Chips, is your current bottleneck.

🔧 Huyang Hologram

You can bring Huyang to your base for 1,500 Nova Crystals. Buy Huyang Hologram once in the Nova Shop’s Workshop section to permanently unlock his hologram. Then you can activate Kyber droids at home instead of making the trip back to Huyang’s Workbench.

Activation still costs the usual currency for the droid’s rarity. The hologram gives you another place to activate them.

💎 Kyber Droid Sell

Have spare activated Kyber droids? Kyber Droid Sell costs 1,000 Nova Crystals in Workshop and lets you trade them for Kyber Crystals. It’s a permanent unlock. Your droid’s rarity sets the payout below.

Inactive Kyber droids don’t qualify. Check your Rebirth requirements and collection before selling a droid you still need.

Iconic rarity has a 6-crystal payout listed, but Iconic droids currently have no Kyber finish. The obtainable payouts are 1 through 5 crystals for Common through Mythic.

🎁 Huyang Bundle

The Huyang Bundle’s listed price is 1,500 V-Bucks. Includes:

• Huyang Hologram
• Kyber Droid Sell
• Huyang's Workshop Paint
• 1 Crafting Boost Token

Already bought either perk? The bundle refunds its Nova price: 1,500 Nova Crystals for Huyang Hologram, 1,000 for Kyber Droid Sell, or 2,500 if you own both.

Check the live shop for availability and the final price before buying.

My early order

Credits Level 1 costs 2 Nova. If Scrap is part of your routine, compare Blueprint Scrap Level 1 for 1 Nova plus Scrap Value Level 1 for 25. Check the gain from your current build before choosing the next level. A cheaper purchase can still give a smaller benefit.

Pick up Daily Quest Crystals at 30 when Nova is the bottleneck, and take the two 10-Nova unlocks when they solve a current problem.

Crafting Speed, the first four Lounge Slot levels (1, 30, 60 and 90 Nova) and the first four Pickaxe Mastery levels (5, 10, 15 and 20 Nova) are cheap utility. Since v1.35.0 Lounge Slot has 12 levels, up to 690 Nova each. Since v1.30.2 Pickaxe Mastery's later levels rise to 150 Nova, or 770 for all 13. None of them makes credits, so I would take them when they solve an annoyance rather than as an opening move.

Multi Crit costs and extra hits

Multi Crit costs 400, 800, 1,200, and 1,600 Nova Crystals, or 4,000 total. Level 1 adds a second crit roll and every later level adds another, up to five total critical hits.

Each additional roll uses half the Crit Chance of the roll before it. v1.26 also fixes the on-screen X5 indicator, so the fifth hit should now be visible when it triggers.

Read the full Multi-Crit roll guide.

v1.26 adds two sell-bonus tracks

Credit Sell Bonus costs 25, 40, and 55 Nova Crystals (120 total) and adds 250% per level, up to +750% Credits when selling a droid.

Chip Sell Bonus costs 60, 100, 140, and 180 Nova Crystals (480 total) and adds 50% per level, up to +200% Upgrade Chips when selling a droid.

Before you buy Blueprint Scrap

Scrap Value and Upgrade Chip Scrap are locked behind Blueprint Scrap. Its first level costs 1 Nova, but blueprint drops can interrupt an unattended Scrap session until they are cleared. Include those interruptions when comparing Scrap with passive income or selling droids.

Good first purchases

Daily Quest Crystals changes the reward

The 30-Nova upgrade replaces each Daily Quest Upgrade Chip reward with exactly 1 Nova Crystal. It does not add the crystal on top of the chips. Buy it when Nova is the bottleneck; wait when large Upgrade Chip totals still block your variants.

Since v1.24, an eligible Daily Quest can also award the droid required for the current Rebirth. The announcement did not confirm whether Daily Quest Crystals changes that separate reward chance, so Droidex does not assume that it does.

Credits scales forever

Each Credits level adds 0.2 to the Credits multiplier before other multiplicative bonuses. Its price starts at 2 Nova and rises by 4 each level. The percentage increase in your income depends on the bonuses already in your build.

There is no final level. The income curve continues upward, but increasing prices and a larger starting multiplier reduce the percentage gain per Nova.

Find where Scrap Value starts paying more

Scrap Value requires Blueprint Scrap. For ordinary credit Scrap, the game pays the higher of a flat reward based on the displayed station level or a reward scaled from your final passive income. Default hits use 0.5 seconds of that income per Scrap Value level. Gold, Diamond and Rainbow use larger factors. Completion rewards are calculated separately.

A level can give no immediate increase while the flat reward is higher. After the scaled reward takes over, more Scrap Value gives a linear gain, while each next level costs more Nova. Your station level, passive income, Scrap variant and actual time at the station determine its value.

The Credits Upgrade Lab plots the flat section, the first level that beats it, and the gain per Nova. Enter the level shown on the Scrap Station and your passive credits per second to see your own curve. Prices start at 25 and climb by 30 a level, so level 8 alone costs 235.

Iconic droids are Nova purchases too

Each Iconic both produces a share of base credits while placed and supplies a separate companion effect while equipped. Their production and companion roles should both be compared with the permanent upgrade that the same Nova could buy.

R2-D2 and C-3PO produce 25% each. The 100-Nova Iconics produce 15% each, while their equipped effects distinguish them. D-O joins the Nova Shop on September 28, 2026 and cuts Fusion time in half. BB-8 doubles Upgrade Chips. DJ R-3X doubles World Mission progress, and opening a World Mission reward crate or Super Crate with him equipped pays the same rolled reward twice. Guaranteed World Mission Credits and Upgrade Chips are paid once. Production stacks across owned and placed Iconics; companion effects require an equipped slot. Chopper was first earned at 75 junk points during his event and has been a Nova Shop purchase since August 31, 2026. He produces 15% and adds 50 points to both Critical Chance and Critical Amount.

WG-22 is configured for the Nova Shop from November 9, 2026 at noon PST (20:00 UTC), at 100 Nova Crystals. His companion perk adds +1.0 to the temporary Flawless multiplier, giving 2x on its own. His placed income is 15% of non-Iconic base income, with a 50-Credit minimum before normal bonuses. The October event can unlock him earlier.

Blueprint Storage has 9 levels. Prices are 10, 75, 150, 250, 350, 500, 650, 800 and 1,000 Nova Crystals, totaling 3,785 from zero. The Storage & Lounge Pack (1,000 V-Bucks) adds 6 Blueprint Storage and 6 Lounge Slot levels and refunds Nova for levels past the max. Buy the next slot when you regularly fill the storage you already have.

The purchases that depend on how you play

These purchases are useful only when the account can use their benefit now. A long-session tool, a second equipped effect, and a reward conversion can each be excellent for one routine and premature for another.

What I would save for

• 100 to 250 Nova: Iconics, starting with the effects your routine can use. Their production does not become more expensive and does not expire.
• 120 Nova: Upgrade Chip Station for long active sessions with hourly collections.
• 250 Nova: Second Companion after two equipped effects improve the same routine. The slot becomes more valuable as the Iconic collection grows.
• 500 Nova: Flawless Charm after collection quality matters more than account-wide upgrades.

Base Paints cost 30, 120, and 400 Nova and are cosmetics, so they stay outside a progression budget. Lobby boosts expire and compete with the next permanent upgrade every time they are bought; a 150-Nova Galactic Surge provides five minutes, or 1,800 Nova per hour of uptime.

Keep going

Use the Nova Shop Planner to record owned levels, current crystals, the next target, the exact shortfall, and the number of Super Rebirth runs required. Compare Upgrade Chip farming, Scrap interruptions, and Flawless hunting before committing crystals to the related one-time purchases.