Collectibles & 100% Completion

How to earn it

There are 11 forts. For each one, sail in and destroy its defences (the cannon batteries and mortar towers) from the Jackdaw. Then land, clear the courtyard and kill the Fort Commander to take it. A captured fort unlocks fast travel and reveals the surrounding map.

Punta Guarico is locked by the story until Sequence 5, Memory 1. The other ten are open as soon as you can reach them. The northern forts are the weakest, so start there while the Jackdaw is still under-gunned and leave the southern ones for later.

All 11 forts, roughly north to south

1. Dry Tortuga (223, 722)
2. Eleuthera (692, 762)
3. Gibara (630, 494)
4. Castillo de Jagua (328, 535)
5. Cabo de Cruz (537, 362)
6. Conttoyor (76, 523)
7. Chinchorro (91, 331)
8. Charlotte (442, 245)
9. Serranilla (317, 120)
10. Navassa (701, 194)
11. Punta Guarico (747, 379) — from Sequence 5, Memory 1

Tip

Keep moving in a wide circle so the batteries can't track you, and fire mortars from outside their range. Heavy shot on a stationary tower is wasted time. Captured forts count toward Cartographer too.

How to earn it

Five legendary ships wait at the four corners of the map. The south-east fight has two of them at once, so it's four battles in total. They're the hardest thing in the platinum, so come prepared:

• A fully upgraded Jackdaw: hull, broadsides, heavy shot, mortars, fire barrels and ram.
• All five officers: Lucy Baldwin's perfect brace, the Padre's Ram-Dash and Deadman Smith's extra broadside volley all make a real difference here.

Then take them on one fight at a time. Tactics for each are in the list below.

The four fights, easiest first

1. La Dama Negra — north-west (240, 72). The easiest. Stay close and pour heated shot into her, brace after every volley, and hit her with mortars as she turns to run.
2. El Impoluto — south-west (117, 841). She rams you, then circles out of reach. Mirror her ram with your own, burn her with heated shot and use mortars when she drifts away. Perfect braces are what keep you alive.
3. HMS Prince — north-east (854, 55). Three health phases. Between them she disappears into fog for a minute or two and lobs mortars; keep circling and brace. When she reappears, Ram-Dash her and follow with heated shot.
4. HMS Fearless & Royal Sovereign — south-east (811, 858). Two Man-o'-Wars at once, and no boarding. Fire mortars when they turn to face you, Ram-Dash one of them, and use swivel shots on the red weak spots. Don't chase them (they drop fire barrels behind them). Brace while you reload.

Tip

Brace (Square) right after you fire. Most of the big hits land while you're reloading, and a perfect brace shrugs them off. Retreating out of range to repair is always an option: none of these fights has a timer.

How to earn it

Buy every Jackdaw upgrade. In total that's about 315,800 Reales, 4,755 Metal, 2,750 Wood and 550 Cloth. The final tier of each upgrade also needs one of the 12 Ultimate Upgrade Plans:

• 6 plans come from the underwater shipwrecks, which open after Sequence 6, Memory 1 (the diving bell). You'll pick them up on the Seven Deadly Seas sweep.
• 6 plans are buried treasure. Collect the matching treasure maps, then dig at the marked spot.

Some of the last tiers also ask for an upgraded Harbourmaster at Great Inagua.

Tip

How to earn it

Send one ship of each class to Kenway's Fleet: Schooner, Brig, Frigate and Man-o'-War. Disable the ship, board it, clear the deck, and pick add to Kenway's Fleet instead of repairing or plundering. The fleet opens once Great Inagua is yours (Sequence 4, Memory 1).

Schooners and Brigs are everywhere. Frigates are tougher, and the Man-o'-War is the real fight: take one on with heavy shot and mortars, and try to catch it alone rather than in a convoy.

Tip

Brigs are the most useful ships in the fleet. Their piracy missions are the only source of 19 Dilettante art pieces, so keep a few Brigs busy on missions at all times.

How to earn it

There are five officers. Two join through the story and three have their own side quests. Each one gives the Jackdaw a new ability, and two of those abilities are required for other trophies. Recruit them early.

The five officers

1. Adéwalé — joins automatically in Sequence 3, Memory 1.
2. Lucy Baldwin — two quests: A Proper Shipwright at Salt Key Bank (446, 620) (after Sequence 4), then The One With the Gun at Great Inagua (818, 445). Unlocks the perfect brace.
3. The Padre — A Second Chance at Caracol (918, 340), then Loyalty, Discipline, and Courage at Cumberland Bay (648, 348). Unlocks Ram-Dash.
4. Anne Bonny — joins automatically in Sequence 12, Memory 1.
5. Tobias “Deadman” Smith — the A World Without Gold questline after Sequence 11: That Bastard Maynard (818, 446), Not Even a Real Captain in Kingston (616, 154), What the Devil! near Cat Island (728, 705) and It's a Start (825, 444). Adds an extra broadside volley.

Tip

How to earn it

You only need to restore the first level of each of the seven village buildings, which comes to exactly 23,100 Reales. Further upgrade levels aren't needed.

First-level costs

• Tavern — 100
• General Store — 500
• Harbourmaster — 500
• Treasure Dealer — 5,000
• Fisherman's Wharf — 5,000
• Brothel — 6,000
• Campfire — 6,000

Tip

Do the cheap ones the moment Great Inagua opens. The General Store, Harbourmaster and Treasure Dealer each unlock things other trophies need. Every Real you spend here also counts toward Business And Pleasure.

How to earn it

Every display slot in the manor has to be filled. The slots break down into six categories:

• 41 Art Pieces — 16 found in the world (chests on land and underwater, local events in Nassau, treasure-map dig sites), 6 bought at any General Store (every store stocks the same six, for 500–2,400 Reales each) and 19 that only come from Brig piracy missions in Kenway's Fleet.
• 9 Paintings — one for raiding each of the 9 warehouses.
• 20 Ship Models — you get one for defeating and boarding each ship type (Spanish and British versions of each) and for beating the legendary ships. The rest come from the story, plus one from the A World Without Gold questline after Sequence 11. They go on the Fleet Planning Room shelf, and all 20 are required.
• 11 Portraits — the same set as The Memory of My Enemy.
• 18 Swords and 12 Pistols — the game has more of both than there are slots, so fill the racks with whichever are easiest to buy or loot.

Tip

The 19 fleet art pieces are the slow part. Two tricks make them painless:

1. Start the skull (piracy) missions in Kenway's Fleet the moment they unlock, from Sequence 4 on. They run on real-time timers, so the earlier you start, the more of them finish while you play the story.
2. Save right before you claim fleet rewards. Claiming refreshes the missions on offer. If none of the new missions shows an art piece as a reward, load the save, claim again and check the new rewards. Repeat until an art piece shows up, then send a Brig on that mission.

How to earn it

Collect all 11 portraits and hang them in the manor. Seven are picked up at fixed spots in the world, one is at the Principe camp in Sequence 12, and three come from side quests. Several only appear once the story has reached a certain point (noted in the list below).

All 11 portraits

1. Du Casse — Great Inagua manor, weapon room (827, 443)
2. Torres — Havana castle, north-west tower (224, 595)
3. El Tiburón — Havana castle — climb the scaffold on the outside wall (204, 608)
4. Chamberlaine — Nassau manor, top floor (589, 757)
5. Woodes Rogers — Kingston manor (618, 171) — from Sequence 12, Memory 1
6. Laurens Prins — Kingston plantation manor (594, 174) — from Sequence 5, Memory 3
7. Hornigold — Santanillas shipwreck (191, 223)
8. Bartholomew Roberts — Principe, tent in the camp (113, 20) — Sequence 12
9. Blackbeard — side quest Blackbeard's Treasure — after Sequence 8
10. Stede Bonnet — side quest Captain Stede Bonnet — after Sequence 8
11. Maynard — Port Royal (602, 134) — A World Without Gold questline, after Sequence 11

Tip

The two Havana portraits are in the same castle, so grab both in one trip. The same 11 portraits also fill the portrait slots for Dilettante.

How to earn it

The seven underwater dive sites open once you get the diving bell in Sequence 6, Memory 1. Together they hold 68 chests: 61 regular chests and 7 hidden ones, one hidden chest per wreck. Visiting a site isn't enough; you need every chest in it.

Inside each wreck, refill your air at the bubble pockets and hide in seaweed to slip past sharks. Give moray eel holes a wide berth. The in-dive map shows which chests you've opened.

The 7 wrecks (chests + hidden chest)

1. San Ignacio (348, 745) — 7 chests + 1 hidden
2. Antocha (600, 636) — 7 chests + 1 hidden
3. Devil's Eye Caverns (456, 332) — 10 chests + 1 hidden
4. The Black Trench (184, 425) — 7 chests + 1 hidden
5. La Concepción (150, 271) — 9 chests + 1 hidden
6. Blue Hole (440, 145) — 10 chests + 1 hidden
7. Kabah Ruins (738, 120) — 11 chests + 1 hidden

Tip

Three trophies line up with this: Owned pops once you've cleared a full location (a wreck counts), you collect 6 of the 12 Ultimate Plans for Ship This, and The Black Trench is also where Davy Jones' Locker and the Last To Leave farm are.

How to earn it

Win one match of each of the three board games. A one-star win counts, and the one-star opponent is weak, so always pick that difficulty.

Where to play

• Nine Men's Morris — Salt Key Bank (467, 605)
• Checkers — Andreas Island (543, 697)
• Fanorona — Crooked Island (777, 520)

Tip

These are quick if you know the basics of each game. Save before a match in case you lose.

How to earn it

The easiest smuggler's chest is in the cave on Jiguey (535, 511). Kill the smugglers guarding it, take the key from one of the bodies, and open the chest.

Tip

Jiguey is also on the Cartographer list, so tick both off on the same stop.

How to earn it

Take a complete set of map pieces to the Treasure Dealer at Great Inagua (817, 448). You'll need to rebuild that shop first, which costs 5,000 Reales. The two quickest maps:

• Digested Map — 2 pieces, dropped by the White Jaguar, which respawns if you need another go.
• Tattered Map — 3 pieces, looted from Pirate Hunter ships. You'll meet those anyway at max Wanted level for Hunter Hunted.

Tip

You only have to restore the map. Digging up its treasure isn't required for this trophy, but some of those treasures are Ultimate Plans, so it's worth doing anyway.

How to earn it

There are 57 locations: 39 islands and towns, 11 forts and 7 underwater wrecks. You don't have to land at each one. Sail close enough that the location's name appears and its fast-travel point unlocks.

A few are gated by the story: the north of Tulum (Sequence 4), Fort Punta Guarico (Sequence 5), Isla Providencia (Sequence 8), Principe (Sequence 9) and Long Bay (Sequence 10). Caracol and Cayman Sound are easy to miss because a quest icon sits on top of their map marker.

All 57 locations by region

Dry Tortuga (7)

• Cape Bonavista
• Havana
• Matanzas
• Florida
• Salt Key Bank
• San Ignacio (wreck)
• Fort Dry Tortuga

Eleuthera (5)

• Andreas Island
• Nassau
• Abaco Island
• Cat Island
• Fort Eleuthera

Gibara (8)

• Jiguey
• Salt Lagoon
• Black Island
• Crooked Island
• Mariguana
• Great Inagua
• Antocha (wreck)
• Fort Gibara

Punta Guarico (5)

• Tortuga
• Caracol (sits behind a quest icon)
• Petite Caverne
• Cumberland Bay
• Fort Punta Guarico (from Seq. 5)

Cruz (4)

• San Juan
• Grand Cayman
• Devil's Eye Caverns (wreck)
• Fort Cabo de Cruz

Castillo de Jagua (5)

• Cayman Sound (sits behind a quest icon)
• Pinos Isle
• Arroyos
• The Black Trench (wreck)
• Fort Castillo de Jagua

Conttoyor (3)

• Sacrifice Island
• Tulum (north part after Seq. 4)
• Fort Conttoyor

Chinchorro (5)

• Santanillas
• Corozal
• Ambergris Key
• La Concepción (wreck)
• Fort Chinchorro

Serranilla (4)

• Misteriosa
• New Bone
• Isla Providencia (Seq. 8+)
• Fort Serranilla

Charlotte (4)

• Anotto Bay
• Long Bay (Seq. 10+)
• Blue Hole (wreck)
• Fort Charlotte

Navassa (6)

• Kingston
• Port Royal
• Île à Vache
• Mystery Island
• Kabah Ruins (wreck)
• Fort Navassa

The far south (1)

• Principe (Seq. 9+)

Tip

Most of these tick off naturally while you're doing forts and wrecks. At the end, open the map and look for any area still under fog. The list below is grouped by region so you can clear one area at a time.

How to earn it

Collect everything in one location: every chest, collectible and activity, plus its viewpoint if it has one. The easiest way is to clear an underwater shipwreck, since each wreck counts as a location and has nothing in it except chests. You'll get this during Seven Deadly Seas without trying.

Tip

If you want it earlier, pick a small island with only a few icons. The map's location summary shows what's left in each one.

How to earn it

This unlocks automatically right after Sequence 8, Memory 1 (“Do Not Go Gently”). If you want it earlier, pick up any sea shanty collectible: they're the white music-note icons that show up on the map after you sync a viewpoint.

Tip

Your crew sings the shanties you've found while you sail. That has nothing to do with the trophy, but it's a nice reason to grab the ones you pass.

How to earn it

The description says 7, but there are really 8 friendly animals, and you need all of them. Walk up to each one and use the interact prompt. Five of the eight are in Kingston, so one lap of the town does most of the work.

All 8 animals

1. Monkey — complete the Monkey Business event just south of Havana, equip it from slot 6 of your inventory, and it appears in the Great Inagua manor or the Jackdaw's captain's cabin
2. Turtle — Abaco Island beach (584, 807)
3. Dog — Kingston docks, by the fast-travel point (617, 167)
4. Pig — Kingston, in the pen next to the General Store (617, 167)
5. Chicken — Kingston, wandering around town near the pig (617, 167)
6. Cow — Kingston, in the pen between the monkey and Harbourmaster icons (627, 161)
7. Cat — Kingston market square, north of the central viewpoint (617, 167) (it roams)
8. Parrot — Havana market square (211, 586) or the cage at the Great Inagua General Store (818, 440) (after Sequence 4, Memory 2)

Tip

The monkey is the one people miss: it only exists once you've completed the Havana event and equipped it. The Kingston animals are all within a short walk of the docks fast-travel point.

How to earn it

Story-automatic. The crafting tutorial in Sequence 3, Memory 1 (“This Tyro Captain”) has you craft an item, and that's the trophy.

Tip

Keep crafting in mind for later: Gun-kata needs the Pistol Holster at level 4, which takes 2 Rabbit Pelts (level 3) and 4 Bull Shark Skins (level 4).

How to earn it

Story-automatic after Sequence 3, Memory 6 (“Proper Defenses”), when the Jackdaw gets its first secondary firing mode.

Tip

The secondary modes (heated shot, for example) are what make the legendary ships and hunter fleets manageable, so use them.

How to earn it

Change all five cosmetic slots at least once: Sails, Figurehead, Hull, Wheel and Crew. Buy the cosmetics at the Great Inagua Harbourmaster (818, 440) after restoring it for 500 Reales, and equip one new item in each slot.

Tip

Buy the cheapest option in each category. Only equipping something new counts; how it looks doesn't matter.

How to earn it

Spend a total of 50,000 Reales on anything: Jackdaw upgrades, rebuilding Great Inagua, shop items. It adds up across the whole game.

Tip

Governor alone is 23,100 and the Jackdaw upgrades are over 300,000, so this pops long before you're done. Just don't sit on your money.

How to earn it

Eat 20 food items from the world (berry bushes, bowls of soup and the like) with Triangle. You can only eat when you're not at full health; at full health the prompt doesn't appear.

Tip

Take a bit of damage (a fall or a scrap), then eat whatever's around. Keep doing it when you pass food after a fight and it adds up.