Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Guide Reference & Analysis
Achievements & Trophies
The following tables offer a range of prompts and tips to help readers obtain a full haul of Achievements and Trophies.
Main Story Milestones
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Icon |
Name |
|
Trophy |
Unlock Condition |
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Heroes Aren’t Born |
10 |
Bronze |
Complete Sequence 01. |
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Good While It Lasted |
20 |
Bronze |
Complete Sequence 02. |
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A Pirate’s Life For Me |
20 |
Bronze |
Complete Sequence 03. |
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No Apologies |
20 |
Bronze |
Complete Sequence 04. |
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Death Of A Salesman |
20 |
Silver |
Complete Sequence 05. |
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Mixing Up The Medicines |
20 |
Silver |
Complete Sequence 06. |
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The Hammer Falls |
20 |
Silver |
Complete Sequence 07. |
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Adrift |
20 |
Silver |
Complete Sequence 08. |
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A New Hope |
20 |
Silver |
Complete Sequence 09. |
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My Elusive Fortune |
20 |
Silver |
Complete Sequence 10. |
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Been Down So Long… |
20 |
Silver |
Complete Sequence 11. |
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Just Like Starting Over |
20 |
Silver |
Complete Sequence 12. |
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Saw That One Coming… |
50 |
Gold |
Complete Sequence 13. |
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Routine Hacking |
20 |
Bronze |
Complete Present 02. |
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Getting Weird Around Here |
20 |
Bronze |
Complete Present 03. |
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Bunker Buddies |
20 |
Bronze |
Complete Present 04. |
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It’s All Good |
20 |
Bronze |
Complete Present 05. |
Side Quests & Optional Accomplishments
|
Icon |
Name |
|
Trophy |
Unlock Condition |
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By The Book |
50 |
Silver |
Complete all main story Memories with a 100% Synchronization rating. Use the Walkthrough chapter for any mission where you struggle to complete the Optional Objectives. You can find a checklist of all Memories overleaf. |
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Owned |
10 |
Bronze |
Find all collectibles and complete all side quests in one location. |
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Vault Raider |
30 |
Bronze |
Collect all 16 Mayan Stones and unlock the secret door in Tulum. |
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Killer Killer |
10 |
Bronze |
Harpoon a Killer Whale. |
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Help A Brother Out |
20 |
Bronze |
Complete a Templar Hunt. |
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Sea Legs |
30 |
Bronze |
Complete all Naval Contracts. |
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King Of The Castle |
30 |
Silver |
Conquer all 11 forts. |
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Employee Of The Month |
30 |
Bronze |
Complete 25 Abstergo Challenges. |
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Redingote Up! |
10 |
Bronze |
Craft the Hunter Outfit. This requires Red Howler Monkey Skin x1 and White Jaguar Pelt x1. |
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Business And Pleasure |
20 |
Bronze |
Earn a total of 5,000R by completing missions in Kenway’s Fleet. |
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Devil Of The Caribbean |
40 |
Silver |
Defeat all Legendary Ships. |
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Destroyer |
40 |
Silver |
Buy all Jackdaw upgrades. |
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Seven Deadly Seas |
10 |
Bronze |
Explore all 10 underwater shipwrecks. |
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Barfly |
30 |
Silver |
Unlock all 11 taverns. |
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FTFY |
10 |
Bronze |
Buy all Great Inagua hideout upgrades. |
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Cartographer |
20 |
Bronze |
Visit all “charted” locations in the game. This refers to the locations represented by an icon on the in-game map. See our map directory. |
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Ghost In The Machine |
10 |
Bronze |
Hack 15 computers in the present day. |
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Sharing Is Caring |
10 |
Bronze |
Share each type of discovery sharing event to friends once. |
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Excavator |
10 |
Bronze |
Find a single Buried Chest. |
UNIQUE FEATS
|
Icon |
Name |
|
Trophy |
Unlock Condition |
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Hungover |
10 |
Bronze |
Drink 10 glasses of rum in a row in a tavern by interacting with the bottle. It’s usually found on the right-hand side of the bar. |
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Silence, Fool! |
5 |
Bronze |
Kill a guard as he stands poised (or just begins) to ring an alarm bell. This is easy to accomplish if you visit any warehouse location (Cat Island in particular). |
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Mer-man |
10 |
Bronze |
Swim for a total of 3km. This is a late-game accomplishment, though you should unlock it in the process of visiting all marked locations on the Caribbean map. |
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Thug Life |
30 |
Bronze |
Plunder 30 ships. Dedicated pirates may obtain this as early as Sequence 04. |
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Cannon Fodder |
5 |
Bronze |
Recruit a total of 500 crew members. This is a cumulative figure that presumes a fair number of boarding actions, so it will pop up much later than “Thug Life”. |
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All Aboard! |
30 |
Bronze |
Complete a full boarding on a brig, a frigate or a man o’ war without losing any crew members. This is easiest during an attack on a brig: if you use your five swivel gun shots wisely, aiming for powder reserves, you can kill the specified 10 enemy sailors before your crew set foot on board. If you are short by a man or two, use pistol fire. |
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Siren Song |
20 |
Bronze |
Use dancers to distract Gunners aiming at pirate prisoners during any random “save pirates” event. You can find appropriate locations in Havana, Kingston and, from Sequence 07, Nassau. |
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Wild West Indies |
20 |
Bronze |
Kill four enemies in quick succession using pistols. This requires that you craft all available Pistol Holsters. Attack a group of enemies composed of basic soldiers only, and simply kill four of them in a row with pistol shots. Havana features many suitable locations to achieve this feat. |
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Roped In |
10 |
Bronze |
Perform five air assassinations from a swinging rope. This can be achieved during boarding sequences. |
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Prizes, Plunder, and Adventure! |
- |
Platinum |
Get every Trophy (PS3 and PS4 only). |
MULTIPLAYER
|
Icon |
Name |
|
Trophy |
Unlock Condition |
|
Personal Bag Of Tricks |
10 |
Bronze |
Finish a game session with an Ability Set that you customized. |
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Master Of The Caribbean |
10 |
Bronze |
Complete Wolfpack’s Discovery Mode. |
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Lab Technician |
10 |
Bronze |
Play and complete a public Game Lab game session. |
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All Rounder |
20 |
Bronze |
Play on every game mode, and use every Ability and Ranged Weapon once. |
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Committed To The Cause |
30 |
Silver |
Reach Level 55. |