Overview

Assassin’s Creed Rogue has a massive number of collectible items. Whether you’re opening chests, looking for Viewpoints, or grabbing Templar Maps, there is quite a bit to uncover. This chapter tells you the rewards for these fun side activities and also lists their locations.

Chests

Chests are an optional type of collectible item. They’re good for getting smaller amounts of money, especially in the early game. Later on, they give you a lower percentage of your income (compared with what you’re getting from ship-to-ship combat and economic activities).

Animus Fragments (200 Total)

Animus Fragments give you extensive background information about the world and its people. There are 200 of these delicate blue diamonds. You can’t find anywhere in the world without them. Some are even hidden at sea inside icebergs or on deserted islands.

Pick them up to unlock entries in your Animus Database (found inside the Pause menu).

Prosperity Fragments

Prosperity fragments raise the amount of money that you get from seizing ships and stealing from outposts, and they add even more to your economic buildings (Renovations and Gang Headquarters). The earlier in your career that you get these bonuses, the more their effects add up over time. This is one of the most tangible rewards that you get from collecting items in Rogue.

Blueprints

Blueprints are another great collectible item with a tangible reward. They allow you to get the final upgrade for various ship-based items. Some are cosmetic, but many improve your weapons and ammo storage capacities.

Letters (35 Total)

War Letters provide even more background about the world of Assassin’s Creed. They expand your Animus Database. These are easy to collect if you’re in the area because they don’t need to be dug up, chased, or earned in a minigame. They’re just regular letters that you pick up.

Cave Paintings (24 Total)

These collectibles are painted inside caves (truly)! You collect them by going to the correct area and using Eagle Vision to spot the details of the painting. Cave Paintings tell a story that unfolds over the course of 24 scenes.

Viewpoints (60 Total)

Viewpoints, though not a collectible, provide Fast Travel locations and a view for the surrounding area. They reveal collectible items and activities on your map, making it so much easier to get everything out of any region.

Always snag a Viewpoint before doing much work in a town. You’ll be glad you did.

Shanties

Shanties increase the number of songs that are available for your crew to sing. There are long and cold nights out at sea; you might as well have something fun to sing while you’re dreaming of lands to come. The 36 Shanties in the table must be unlocked through exploration. Each one is found higher up in an area and blows around with the wind once Shay gets close to it. Sprint to catch up, and Free Run across the rooftops and trees to grab it. If the Shanty gets away from you, wait a few minutes for it to reset and then try again. You can always come at the song from a different angle; sometimes they’ll fly right into your arms!

You start the game with several songs, so even non-explorers aren’t going to be left out. Quite early in the game you receive: Bold Riley Oh, Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmates, Jolly Roving Tar, New York Girls, Paddy Lay Back, Rolling Down to Old Maui, and Windy Old Weather.

Tablet Documents

Tablet Rewards

Like computers, these collectible items are distributed throughout the Abstergo complex. You can’t finish collecting them until the very end of the game, when you get Level 3 Security Access.

To collect these Documents, approach the small tablets that are left on desks or the ground, and use your Wireless command to interact with them. Tablet Documents unlock interesting backstory information about the Templars and their activities in the modern world.