Collectibles & 100% Completion

How to earn it

There are 11 forts, each shown as a red tower icon on the map. For each one: pound its shore batteries with the Jackdaw's heavy shot and mortars from range until its health bar empties, sail into the dock, then go ashore and assassinate the fort captain to lower the flag and claim it.

Tip

Upgrade the Jackdaw's hull and mortars before the later forts — their shore batteries hit hard. Capturing forts also opens fast-travel and reveals nearby map icons, so it feeds your Cartographer sweep too.

How to earn it

There are 5 Legendary Ships, and they sit out at the far corners of the map — you have to sail to each remote marker to trigger the fight. These are the hardest naval battles in the game (this is the trophy most likely to stretch your platinum), so only take them on after the Jackdaw is fully upgraded.

Tip

Keep moving to dodge their broadsides, use heavy shot and mortars for damage and fire barrels when they close in. Some travel in pairs — bait them apart and whittle them down one at a time rather than tanking both.

How to earn it

Buy every Jackdaw upgrade — hull, all cannon/mortar/swivel weapons, ram and boarding. Maxing it out costs roughly 315,800 Reales plus a large pile of crafting materials (on the order of 4,700 Metal, 2,700 Wood and 550 Cloth), and the top tiers need the Ultimate upgrade plans.

Tip

The fastest way to bankroll it is boarding convoys and warships instead of sinking them — boarding hands you reales and the metal/wood/cloth you need, so it also chips away at Collective Madness and All Hands On Deck at the same time.

How to earn it

Send one of each of the 4 ship classes to Kenway's Fleet: Schooner, Brig, Frigate and Man-o'-War. In a naval fight, damage a ship until you can board it, clear the deck, then choose "Send to Fleet" instead of plundering. Do that once for each of the four hull types and it's done — Schooners and Brigs are everywhere, so save your boardings for the rarer Frigate and Man-o'-War.

How to earn it

Recruit all 5 Officers by completing their side quests around the map. Each grants a Jackdaw ability — notably the Padre (Ram-Dash) and Lucy Baldwin (Perfect Brace), whose quests are at 446, 620 / 648, 348 and 446, 620 — so finishing this trophy also directly hands you the combat trophies Return The Favor and Old Ironsides. Knock the officer quests out early and the naval combat trophies become trivial.

How to earn it

Rebuild all 7 structures in your home village at Great Inagua by paying for each at the upgrade board — the full set runs about 23,100 Reales. There's no skill to it; just save up and buy every rebuild. Restoring buildings also unlocks manor conveniences (crafting, the treasure dealer), so do it early.

How to earn it

Fill every Art Collection and Equipment display slot in the manor — the paintings, ship models, and the sword and pistol racks. The pieces come from chests, shops, Templar Hunts and activity rewards spread across the whole map, which makes this the longest collection trophy and usually the last thing you finish before the platinum.

Tip

Because the items are scattered everywhere, this one basically completes itself if you follow the golden rule — sync viewpoints and clear each region's chests and activities fully. Check the manor's collection board to see which slots are still empty.

How to earn it

Hang all 11 character portraits in the manor's portrait gallery. Each portrait is earned by completing that character's questline — mainly the Templar Hunts and assassination contracts — so clearing that content out is what fills the wall. Check the gallery to see which faces are still blank and track down the matching quest.

How to earn it

There are 7 underwater shipwreck dive sites holding 68 treasure chests between them — you need every chest, not just to visit each wreck. Each site is a diving-bell puzzle: manage your air at the bubble pockets, avoid the sharks and moray eels, and use the crew's distraction bell to slip past predators to the sealed chests.

How to earn it

Win at least once at each of the 3 tavern games: Nine Men's Morris, Checkers and Fanorona. You can set the opponent to 1-star difficulty, so these are easy wins — the AI plays poorly on the lowest setting. All three are available in taverns from early on; a single win at each is all you need.

How to earn it

You only need to open one smuggler's chest. They're tucked inside smuggler dens — small hidden coves and restricted coastal camps marked once you're nearby — and each is sealed until you find and enter the correct code/key from the den's lookout note. Clear the handful of guards, read the clue, open the chest and it pops.

How to earn it

Restore just one torn map. Pick up Map Piece collectibles as you explore, then take a complete set to the Treasure Dealer at Great Inagua to have it pieced back together — that restoration is what pops the trophy (you don't have to dig up the treasure it points to for this one). Since you're vacuuming up collectibles anyway, you'll complete a map set naturally.

How to earn it

Visit every location in the game. Sail to and set foot in each map marker — buying maps from harbourmasters reveals where to go.

How to earn it

Complete every activity in a single location — 100% one region (all its collectibles, chests and activities). Pick a small location to knock this out early.

How to earn it

You don't have to hunt for this — your crew learns a new shanty automatically during Sequence 8 of the story, so it pops on its own as you play. If you want more shanties for the collection, pick up the floating music sheets that drift in the water and sit around ports, but a single new shanty is all the trophy needs.

How to earn it

Interact with every friendly animal dotted around the world — approach each and use the pet/interact prompt. Heads up: the trophy text reads "interact with all 7 friendly animals", but there are actually 8 — the description undercounts by one (an easy-to-miss extra monkey). Tick off all eight or the trophy won't pop.

How to earn it

Craft an item. Hunt animals for materials, then craft a Jackdaw or gear upgrade at the relevant menu.

How to earn it

Unlock a secondary firing mode on a Jackdaw weapon. Buy the weapon upgrade that adds a secondary function (like heavy shot or fire barrels) and use it in a naval fight.

How to earn it

Equip new cosmetics in each of the Jackdaw's vanity slots — change the sails, wheel, figurehead and the rest at least once.

How to earn it

Spend 50,000 Reales in total. It stacks across everything you buy — upgrades, cosmetics and shop goods all count.

How to earn it

Consume 20 food items. Eat food (from shops or loot) 20 times over the course of the game.