Recently in Droid Tycoon, a Star Wars game built in Fortnite, they added a feature where you could fuse multiple droids together. They kept the recipes a secret, but people started making lists. I grabbed a screenshot from the forum, but when I kept using the markup tool on my phone it never saved right. Probably because I was multitasking between my TV and my phone.
I thought I just need a simple checklist so I know what droid blueprints to target off the belt.
So I built Droid Tycoon Fusion Cookbook — a simple checklist for tracking Droid Tycoon’s fusion recipes. Check off the parts you’ve collected, and the result glows green the moment you’re ready to fuse it.
🔗 Try it: https://theplaidscientist.github.io/fusioncookbook/
💻 Code: https://github.com/theplaidscientist/fusioncookbook
What it does
Droid Tycoon’s fusion system has 17 not-so-secret recipes for new hybrid droids, across four rarity tiers, each one combining three specific parts into a new droid. Cross-referencing a static image against “wait, do I have two GONKs or one?” got old fast. So the tool is just:
• Tap each part as you collect it
• All three parts checked → the result lights up green, no more digging back through a screenshot
• Tap the result once you’ve actually fused it in-game → the row strikes through and fades, so what’s left on your list is only what’s left to do
I kept having the issue where I had ⅔ of any equation, but nothing I could actually use.
The build:
Nothing fancy on purpose — it’s a single index.html, vanilla JavaScript, no framework, no build step. I just wanted an easy persistent checklist that wasn’t dependent on my paying too much attention.
The one detail I actually like: progress saves to localStorage, keyed per recipe, so closing the tab or restarting your phone doesn’t lose your checkmarks — but nothing leaves your device and there’s no account to manage. Add it to your home screen via browser and it behaves like its own tiny app.
It’s an unofficial fan tool — not affiliated with Epic Games, Lucasfilm, or Disney — just something I wanted to exist and didn’t see anywhere else.
What’s next
This is the first in a series I’m doing on Plaid Labs, a little hub of web experiments I keep building for myself and then figure other people might want too — there’s also Daily Doodle, a drawing-prompt generator, with more on the way.
Have you ever built something to make your video game more fun? What was it?
This article was originally published by DEV Community and written by Andy Schelb.
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