Restoration Guide to Loot
(This page is a work in progress - September 2025)
What to trash, what to keep? What to sell, and what to delete?
Nourishing Vita-caps are NOT Junk. You can toggle items to "No Sell" status in the Junk Dealer options.
Loot drops in Star Wars Galaxies Restoration (SWGR) can be overwhelming. Inventory may fill up quickly and you will need to make decisions on what to do with loot. This page is intended to be an encyclopedia to help advise your choices.
It might say sell to Junk Dealer, but
check here first!
Bio-Engineering Loot
Isomerase Enzymes
These are used to create Bio-Engineered pets and enhance their damage. There are generally ~3 tranches of value
- 89.03% + Keep and find a Bio-Engineer to sell to for top slot isomerase
- 88-89.02% Keep to sell to a Bio-Engineer for bottom slot isomerase
- Less than 88% - Feel free to delete or sell to Junk Dealer
Hydrolase Enzymes
Received only through special extraction tool. See
Bio-Engineer page.
Lyase Enzymes
Gained from
Foraging. Bio-Engineers generally only use lyase 11, which is required to make a capped pet.
Chronicle Loot
This may be
toggled off if you desire. Turned on/off has no affect on other loot drop rates.
Chronicle Relic Fragment
These are used to construct Chronicle Relics. Stacked in thousands and sold or used to level
Chronicler Secondary Profession.
Chronicle Relic
Used to add specific objectives to Chronicle Quests. Depending on type, there could be interest. Mostly they can be broken into fragments for stacking and sale.
Creature Loot
Keep or delete. Can sell to Junk Dealer for a small amount of credits.
- Antenna
- Organ
- Heart
- Glad
- Larva
- Nerve Complex
- Eye
- Brain
Non-Player Character (NPC) Loot
Weapons
These are quite valuable to the Junk Dealer and sell for 100 credits per Combat Level.
Armor
See
Stat Loot, if no stats sell to junk dealer or keep for appearance. Exception is bounty hunter armor pieces which are components in mandalorian armor crafting.
Minor Stims
These stims have a very minor stat boost that have very little value. Can be stacked and sold to Junk Dealer.
- Improved Agility Stim
- Improved Precision Scope
- Improved Strength Stim
Paintings
Common paintings which you can decorate with, try to sell on bazaar or destroy.
- Bio-engineering Poster
- Cargo Port Blueprint
- Party Poster
- RIS One-sheet
- Valley View
- Wanted Poster: Han Solo
- Wanted Poster: Leia Organa
- Wanted Poster: Luke Skywalker
- Wanted Poster: Trandoshan
Find more information on the
Paintings Page.
Fishing Equipment
Fishing bait is often found while foraging. Not worth much to most.
Foraging & Ice Cream Ingredients
Find more information on the
Foraging Page
Broken Fryer starts a collection which leads to a Corellian Ice Cream Fryer Schematic. Low value item.
Reverse Engineering Junk Loot and Stat Loot
Tech Junk Loot
This loot comes from NPCs and Droids at various tranches of levels. This loot is typically valuable to
Reverse Engineers and is worth keeping and selling. Typical prices are 1k-1.5k per item.
For example, a Mark VII Vocabulation Module typically comes from NPCs and Droids in the CL 60-70 range whereas Red/White Wiring drops from NPCs and Droids in the CL 10-20 range.
https://www.swgjunkyard.com/
Stat Loot Armor, Clothing, and Jewelry
21+ in Any Stat:
These can be bagged and sold by 21/22/23 as the highest stat.
Three/Four Stat Loot (any stat):
These can be bagged and sold, albeit for less than 21+, so sort accordingly.
Jewelry:
Multi-stat jewelry with 15+ in most values or Opportune Chance jewelry is sought after by all players.
If the clothing/armor/jewelry does not fall into the above categories, it can be sold to the junk dealer or destroyed.
Slicing Materials And Items for Smugglers
Slicing materials are generally worth keeping. Pricing can be 5-15k sold to other players. Some pieces are more commonly looted like Simple Toolkits, Mandolorian Intraframe - whereas others are only obtainable via Bounty Hunter & Smuggler missions.
*Newly added
Illegal Weapon Module used by Smugglers for Modify Pistol Skill at 1xxx
(2025 June Patch)
Slice Removal Tool
Weapon Slicing
- Simple Toolkit
- Finely Crafted Toolkit
- Delicate Trigger Assembly
- Illegal Core Booster
Armor Slicing
- Simple Toolkit
- Shock Absorbent Padding
- Finely Crafted Toolkit
- Powered Motivators
- Trandoshan Intraframe
- Manalorian Intraframe
Reactive Micro Plating
Jedi Loot
Holocrons - Waist Pack Collection
This collection yields the Belt of Bodo Bass and is one of the most difficult in the game to finish.
Rare items 4/5 in each Jedi and Sith are extremely valuable.
- Jedi Artifact Collection - Waist Pack - Jedi Holocron 1-5
- Jedi 4/5 is the rare item
- Jedi Artifact Collection - Waist Pack - Sith Holocron 1-5
- Sith 4/5 is the rare item
Holocrons - Meditative Collection
Highly sought after for finishing the Jedi Unlock.
Find more information on the
Meditative Collection Page
Jedi Relics
These are fairly common loot and do not have much of a use. Keep some in a stack for later.
Power Crystals
Very common loot. Keep a few around that were looted from very high level mobs with high condition.
Color Crystals
Very common loot, named color crystals are being removed from the game and being added in Illum Cave for Jedi in the future.
Krayt Pearls
Depends on the type of pearl - most are not worth much of anything.
- Scratched Pearl - Trash
- Krayt Pearl - Worth keeping some high condition (1200).
- Ancient Krayt Pearl - Very rare and very desirable
Weaponsmith Loot
Augmentations
Keep 200+, 210+ is highly sought after. Junk the rest.
Enhancements
Keep 20+, 22+ is highly sought after. Junk the rest.
Components
All of these looted components give additional critical chance, however, are not powerful enough to justify replacing the crafted component that gives damage bonus.
Recommended to sell to Junk Dealer or delete.
- Advanced Weapon Scope
- Rifle Stock
- Blaster Pistol Barrel
- Blaster Power Handler
- Projectile Rifle Barrel
- Projectile Blaster Barrel
- Projectile Feed Mechanism
- Vibro Blade Unit (EXCEPT: Nightsister Vibro Blade with % are valuable)
Armorsmith Loot
Peko Peko Feather, Krayt Dragon Scale, Nightsister Armor Shard, Kimogila Scale, and Interwoven Armor Appearance Enhancement: keep 20+, 22+ is highly sought after. The more quantity of item in a stack also increases its value exponentially. Junk the rest.
Space Loot
Collections
Capacitors, Engines, and Boosters are great components, while the Reactors are generally useless. For more details see
Space Loot Collections and its sub-pages.
General Space Loot Guidelines
See
Space Loot.
Schematic Drops
Various schematics drop in open world. Check the
crafting page of the profession needed.
Resource Recyclers:
Chemical, Creature, Flora, Gas, Metal, Ore Recycling Schematics require looted components. These will not be marked for sale to Junk Dealer.
- Agitator Motor (Cheap Copper Battery, x2 Red Wiring)
- Feed Tube
- Heating Element
- Processor Attachments
- Pulverizer
- Small Power Motor
- Spinner Blade
- Tumble Blender (Agitator Motor, x2 Cheap Copper Battery, x3 Blue Wiring)
Housing Collections
There are five (5) Housing Collections which add storage when used within a structure. Each collection has a rare 1 item that is highly sought after. These are often sold in full bags with the entire collection or individually with the rare item.
- Storage Techniques - #6 is the rare item (#7 is close behind)
- Techniques in Maximizing Space - #4 is the rare item
- Shelving Techniques - #2 is the rare item
- Craftsman Tools - #1 is the rare item
- Cabinetry Techniques - #10 is the rare item
