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How to Fix the Star Wars Droid Tycoon Join Glitch in Fortnite

Force your lobby to refresh with the participation toggle when matchmaking stalls on "Waiting for Players 1/2."

Force your lobby to refresh with the participation toggle when matchmaking stalls on “Waiting for Players 1/2.”

by Sehaj Padda

Trying to drop into a friend’s Star Wars Droid Tycoon session and getting stuck on “Waiting for Players 1/2” is a matchmaking hang, not a full crash. Your party is connected, but the lobby never registers that a second player is ready, so the match never starts. The fix is to force the lobby to refresh by cycling your participation status and briefly switching game modes.

Quick answer: In the social menu, set Participation to “Sitting Out,” switch to Battle Royale, then set Participation back to “Playing” and switch back to Star Wars Droid Tycoon. Ready up and select Join.

What the “Waiting for Players 1/2” glitch is

When you join a friend’s party and ready up for Star Wars Droid Tycoon, the matchmaking screen should count both players and launch the island. The bug leaves the counter frozen at 1/2, even after you cancel and ready up several times. It shows up most often in this island (map code 7865-8305-9184), but the same lobby-sync problem can hit other Creative and UEFN experiences.

The cause is a stale lobby state. Your party connection is fine, but the mode’s ready-check does not update to include you. Toggling participation and mode tells Fortnite to rebuild that ready-check from scratch.

Fix the join glitch with the participation toggle

Do this while you are already in your friend’s party and back at the lobby. Follow the steps in order.

Open the social menu and find the Participation setting. Change it from “Playing” to “Sitting Out.” This removes you from the active ready-check.
Fortnite social menu open with the player status option highlighted for selection
The Fortnite profile menu, where you change your Participation status before switching modes. Image credit: Epic Games / via YouTube@LootDad
Change your active game mode to something else, such as Battle Royale. Leaving Star Wars Droid Tycoon clears the stuck matchmaking state.
Set Participation back to “Playing” by selecting “Stop Sitting Out.” You are now marked as an active player again.
Switch the game mode back to Star Wars Droid Tycoon. The lobby should now recount players and let you ready up cleanly.
Fortnite Social panel on the Party chat tab showing party members and the Leave party button
The Social panel’s Party tab, where you confirm you are still grouped with your friend before rejoining. Image credit: Epic Games / via YouTube@LootDad
If it still hangs, toggle Participation to “Sitting Out” and back to “Playing” one more time in the lobby, then select Join. This second cycle usually forces the counter to update.

How to confirm the fix worked

You know it worked when the “Waiting for Players 1/2” text advances instead of sitting frozen, and the island begins loading you and your friend together. If the counter still refuses to move, leave and rejoin the party first, then repeat the toggle. A stuck party membership is the most common reason the mode switch fails to refresh anything.

Note: This is a workaround for the lobby-sync hang, not for a hard connection error. If you are stuck on “finding server” and cannot load the island at all, even on private, that is a separate server-side issue rather than the ready-check bug this fixes.

Star Wars Droid Tycoon has also seen crashes affecting it and other UEFN islands. A temporary fix is live to reduce those crashes, and work on a full resolution is ongoing. That crashing problem is distinct from the join glitch, so the participation toggle above targets the “Waiting for Players 1/2” hang only, while the crash mitigation comes from the island’s developer updates.

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