Sep 11, 2025

Star Birds Walkthrough – Sector 5.1

Fahad Suleman

Star Birds Walkthrough

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Star Birds is a fantastic resource management game, where you have to help out an extremely advanced civilization of birds in their space-faring adventure. For more information about Star Birds, don’t forget to check out their official Steam page.

Sector 5.1 is a little unique, as it’s the only sub-sector in the game as of now. It is completely optional, and you’ll have to manually select it from the Level Selection screen to initiate it.

Arrival
Settling In With Silicon
Securing Methane
Crafting Carbon
Converting Water To Oxygen
Converting Carbon Into Hydrocarbon And Then Into Plastic
Setting Up Production For Glass
Producing A Conductor

Arrival

As you arrive in this sector, you’d have a total of 8 asteroids on the map. 4 of these are discovered, while you’ll have to discover the rest yourself. Furthermore, the goal here is to craft a Conductor. This is an item that we’ve never crafted before, but it is made by combining Plastic and Glass in a component lab.

Settling In With Silicon

To get started, you’ll first have to discover the remaining asteroids. You’ll have to do so because the asteroids that have already been discovered don’t have any resources on them.

Head to the asteroid that has Silicon on it, and set up a launch pad and Silicon production here. Accept a module quest and upgrade it by delivering the required resources.

From now on, keep accepting supply quests to ensure you’ve got a steady supply of Credits and Tech points.

Securing Methane

After you’ve got Silicon production going, it’s time to expand your horizon. Head to the map and go to the asteroid that has Methane on it, and repeat the process to secure steady production of it.

Upgrade your Station Level by accepting another module quest and delivering the required Methane for it. Now that we’ve got Methane going, it’s time to focus on the objective.

Crafting Carbon

To produce a Conductor, we’ll first have to start with the basic component, and that would be Carbon. Carbon can be produced by combining Oxygen and Methane in a chemical lab.

We’re producing Carbon, but for Oxygen, we’ll have to head to another asteroid that has Water on it. Head there and set up a launch pad alongside ice extractors.

Converting Water To Oxygen

These asteroids are small, so you’ll have to use the space wisely. Setting up a lot of stuff on one asteroid is going to make things difficult. For that reason, it’s best to head to an empty asteroid and start producing Oxygen from Water there.

Furthermore, there’s no solid surface to place a refiner here, which means we’ll have to convert Water to Oxygen on some other asteroid.

Head to any empty asteroid that has at least 4 large craters and set up a launch pad and a landing pad there. Route the Water transport line to this asteroid’s landing pad.

Set up a chemical lab and head back to the map. On the map, connect the transport lines for Methane and Water to the landing pads of this asteroid.

You’ll be able to produce Carbon now. For the next step, we have to convert Carbon into Hydrocarbon and then into Plastic.

Converting Carbon Into Hydrocarbon And Then Into Plastic

Head back to the Methane asteroid and set up another launch pad here. You can connect at least two ice extractors that were previously attached to the first launch pad to the second launch pad. Supply quests aren’t infinite, and we have to avoid setting up extra structures.

Set up another chemical lab on the Carbon production asteroid. Connect the produced Carbon to this chemical lab. Furthermore, connect the Methane coming from the second landing pad to this newly crafted chemical lab, so that we can produce Hydrocarbon.

Place a refiner to the second chemical lab’s output to convert the Hydrocarbon into Plastic, and then connect the refiner to the launch pad.

Setting Up Production For Glass

You’ve got Plastic, but you still need to produce Glass to get a Conductor. For Glass, you’ll first have to produce Quartz, which is made up of Silicon and Water.

Head to the Water asteroid and set up another launch pad there. Now, go to the Silicon asteroid and build a landing pad here. There’s plenty of solid space on the Silicon asteroid for you to start producing Glass out of it.

Now, you should be receiving Water on this asteroid. Set up an extractor on Silicon and combine the Water coming from the landing pad and Silicon from this newly crafted extractor to a chemical lab.

Place a launch pad on the last available crater on this Silicon asteroid and connect the chemical lab’s output to this launch pad. However, make sure you place a refiner in between, so the Quartz can be crafted into Glass.

Producing A Conductor

We’re producing Glass and Plastic, both of which are required to craft a Conductor. Check if any of the asteroid has at least three large craters and head there.

Set up a launch pad here and two landing pads. Go to the map and connect the transport lines of Plastic and Glass to this asteroid’s two landing pads.

Now, you have to set up a component lab here. You’ll need energy to power it up. Set up at least three solar panels in the area highlighted by white markings.