{"id":15893,"date":"2021-02-27T14:38:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T22:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=15893"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:52:26","slug":"swtor-jawa-scrap-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/swtor-jawa-scrap-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"SWTOR Jawa Scrap Materials Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jawa Scraps are a type of currency that you can turn in for crafting materials. There are three types of this currency, green, which is called Scavenged Scrap, blue, which is called Assorted Droid parts, and purple, which is called Jawa Junk, which is also what players often call this type of currency.<\/p>\n

How to Get Jawa Junk<\/h2>\n

Jawa Scraps are a strange type of item currency that mostly come from gathering crew skills these days. Almost all crafting materials can be bought with Jawa Scrap, and each type of material costs different amounts.<\/p>\n

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Slicing for Jawa Junk<\/h3>\n

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Slicing is a Crew Skill that allows you to send out companions or gather Slicing Nodes spread out around the galaxy. The main reward it gives are lockboxes filled with credits or Slicing crafting materials used by crafters.<\/p>\n

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However, Grade 11 Slicng Lockboxes do not have credits or materials inside. For some reason, instead, they have Jawa Scrap of varying amounts and types. This makes them a stable source of Jawa Scrap.<\/p>\n

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Gathering Lockboxes<\/h4>\n

There are two ways to get Grade 11 Slicing Lockboxes. The first is taking a a rank 600 or higher Slicer to the planets of Onderon or Mek-Sha, and gathering the Slicing Nodes there, indicate on the map with an icon of a star – make sure\u00a0 that ‘Resources’ are turned on in the map filters or you won’t see them.<\/p>\n

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They look like strange little computer terminals. When you roll over them, they’ll be called “Encrypted Data Cache” and you can right-click them to gather them.<\/p>\n

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Mission Lockboxes<\/h4>\n

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The “Off The Radar” Slicing Crew Skill Mission is pretty great for gathering rare materials. This is because it rewards a Grade 11 Credit Case which when opened contains Jawa Scrap.<\/p>\n

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In addition, if you are lucky and the mission crits, you will also get multiple lockboxes to open and a “purple bordered” Grade 11 Mission Discovery item for a random crew skill. This item, when used on a character with that random crew skill, unlocks an additional crew skill mission, which has a high chance of<\/p>\n

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These unlockable missions will have a lock symbol beside them in your Crew Skills missions list, takea very long time to run (abou 20 minutes with a max-level influence Companion) and can only be run once until you get another copy of the unlockable mission item.<\/p>\n

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Unlockable missions usually give more rewards in general, but, if you are lucky you will get a rare item called a Legendary Ember, which looks like a golden nugget. If you’re especially lucky, you’ll get two. The Legendary Ember item is required for crafting augments, and the only other way to get them is by spending 3,000 Tech Fragments, so these are very valuable crafting materials to use or sell.<\/p>\n

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Low-level Gathering on High-Level Planets<\/h3>\n

You can also gather high-level nodes on higher-level planets with a low-level gatherer to get some Jawa Scrap. The way it works is you can still gather high-level nodes with a low-level gatherer, but you will automatically “fail”, and isntead of getting the materials you were expecting you will instead get a very small pile of Jawa Scrap, for example 1 or 2 of two different kinds of scrap.<\/p>\n

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Efficient Jawa Scrap Farming<\/h3>\n

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So, if you wanted to maximized efficiency, you would have a character who has a Rank 600+ Slicing, you would send a companion out to get the Grade 11 lockboxes in the missions, and go to Onderon and \/ or Mek-Sha to pick up the Slicing Terminals. You would also have two low-level gathering skills like Archaeology, Scavenging or Bioanalysis, and use that to pick up high-level nodes in the area as well. Don’t forget you can swap instances using the big map dropdown to find more nodes while waiting for them to spawn when you have cleared out the map.<\/p>\n

Where to Spend Jawa Junk<\/h2>\n

To spend your Jawa scrap, head to the Fleet, and go to the Cartel Bazaar, which is the northern elevator Republic side and the Southern elevator Imperial side.<\/p>\n

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There you’ll find a group of Jawa vendors who will sell you materials for scrap. Turning scrap in to materials and then selling the materials is also a great easy way to make credits.<\/p>\n

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Making Credits With Jawa Junk<\/h2>\n

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If you\u2019re looking to make credits with any spare Jawa Junk you have, you can turn in your Jawa Scrap for crafting materials, you\u2019d then sell these crafting materials on the GTN for some easy extra money. What exact items you should buy for the best profit will depend on the current market. Some items that players often buy to resell for a good value are the green items that only cost 1 Jawa Scrap<\/strong>, including:<\/p>\n