What To Do After Completing The Main Story in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced

Finishing the main story in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is far from the end. The Caribbean stays fully open after the credits roll, and there’s a massive amount of content still waiting — much of it brand new to the remake. From an eight-mission endgame chapter to Legendary Ships, Templar Hunts, Great Inagua upgrades, and Animus Projects, this guide covers everything worth doing after you complete the main story in Black Flag Resynced, in roughly the best order to tackle it.

TL;DR — Postgame Checklist

• A World Without Gold — new 8-mission endgame chapter if you haven’t done it yet — do this first
• Officer Quests — recruit Lucy Baldwin, The Padre, and Deadman if you missed them during the story
• Legendary Ships — sink all 6 for the Devil of the Caribbean trophy and Jackdaw cosmetics
• Templar Hunts — 4 questlines, each ending in an assassination — reward: Templar Armor and Templar Cross Trinket
• Mayan Mysteries — collect all 16 Mayan Stelae — reward: Mayan Outfit and Yax Tun Pendant (bulletproof trinket)
• Assassin and Naval Contracts — 30 assassination contracts, 15 naval contracts — reward: Stealth Outfit, Spring-Steel Swords
• Great Inagua upgrades — fully restore all buildings for the Governor trophy, fill the manor for the Dilettante trophy
• Kenway’s Fleet — send ships on missions passively to earn art pieces and Reales
• Treasure Maps — solve all 22 maps for chests across the Caribbean
• Animus Projects — complete Anomalies for Data Fragments, prioritize Eye in the Dark for Black Flag Resynced-exclusive gear
• Side Quests — Blackbeard’s Treasure, Captain Stede Bonnet, Art Lover, Damn Fine Gear if not finished
• Animus Rifts — 4 optional narrative activities with money, trade goods, and Data Fragment rewards
• Nothing is missable — full free-roam continues after the story ends

First — Do A World Without Gold If You Haven’t Already

A World Without Gold is the biggest new addition in Black Flag Resynced and the first thing to tackle if you skipped it or left it until after Sequence 12. It’s an eight-mission endgame chapter that introduces Robert Maynard as a new antagonist, recruits Tobias “Deadman” Smith as your third Naval Officer, and unlocks the Extra Salvo and Cohort Mortar upgrades for the Jackdaw. The quest marker — That Bastard Maynard — appears near the Great Inagua tavern and is still available post-story. For a full step-by-step guide, see our A World Without Gold walkthrough.

Recruit Any Missed Naval Officers

If you didn’t complete the Officer Quests during the main story, now is the time. All three questlines are still available post-story with no changes. Lucy Baldwin is found at Salt Key Bank and unlocks Perfect Brace. The Padre is at Caracol and unlocks Ram Dash. Deadman is accessed through A World Without Gold. You need Lucy and the Padre both recruited before Deadman’s recruitment mission opens — so tackle those two first. Recruiting all five officers (including Adéwalé and Anne Bonny who join automatically) unlocks the All Hands on Deck trophy. Our full Officer Quests walkthrough covers every mission and location.

Hunt Down All 6 Legendary Ships

The Legendary Ships are the toughest naval encounters in the game and among the most satisfying postgame challenges. There are four open-world ships at the map corners and two tied to story content:

• El Impoluto — Northwest (115, 842) — unlocks after capturing Dry Tortuga fort
• La Dama Negra — Southwest (240, 72)
• HMS Prince — Southeast (854, 55) — unlocks after capturing Navassa fort
• HMS Fearless and Royal Sovereign — Northeast (811, 858) — two ships at once
• HMS Ipswich — fought during A World Without Gold’s final mission

Each open-world ship rewards 12,000 Reales, a miniature ship model for Great Inagua Manor, and Jackdaw cosmetics. Sinking all four open-world ships unlocks the Devil of the Caribbean silver trophy — one of the most significant postgame trophies in the game. All open-world ships respawn over time if you’ve already sunk them, so you can keep farming them. Make sure Deadman’s Extra Salvo and Cohort Mortar are unlocked first — they make every fight more manageable. See our full Legendary Ships guide for strategies on each one.

Complete All Four Templar Hunts

The Templar Hunts are four separate questlines, each starting when you meet a specific Assassin contact across the Caribbean. Each ends with assassinating a Templar who holds one of the four Templar Keys needed to open the locked vault in Great Inagua Manor. The four targets are Rhona Dinsmore, Upton Travers, Anto, and Opia Apito. Collecting all four keys and opening the vault rewards the Templar Armor outfit — purely cosmetic — plus the Templar Cross Trinket, which reduces all incoming melee damage when equipped. That trinket is genuinely useful for Edward’s toughest land encounters. The Templar Armor display in the Great Inagua Manor office becomes accessible once all keys are collected.

Collect All 16 Mayan Stelae

The Mayan Mysteries side quest tasks you with finding 16 Mayan Stelae (stone markers) scattered across the Caribbean. Each one requires climbing to a viewpoint column above it and solving a simple alignment puzzle to reveal where it’s buried beneath, then digging it up. The quest starts after completing Overrun and Outnumbered in Sequence 4 — James Kidd shows you a locked door in Tulum that requires all 16 stones. Collecting every Stelae and returning to Tulum to unlock the door rewards two things:

• Mayan Outfit — a cosmetic armor set for Edward
• Yax Tun Pendant trinket — makes Edward immune to enemy gunfire when equipped. This is one of the strongest trinkets in the game.

Stelae locations are marked on the map after syncing nearby viewpoints. Our treasure map guide can help you navigate the Caribbean efficiently while you hunt them down.

Finish All Assassin and Naval Contracts

The Caribbean is dotted with contract boards at every major port and settlement. There are 30 Assassin Contracts and 15 Naval Contracts across the map. These are short targeted missions — assassination contracts send you after a named target, naval contracts have you sink specific ships or convoys. The rewards are Reales and resources, but the bigger payoffs come from completion milestones:

• Completing 16 Assassin Contracts unlocks the Stealth Outfit and the Hidden Ones Sigil legendary trinket
• Completing all 30 Assassin Contracts rewards the Spring-Steel Swords

Contracts are a reliable source of passive income and upgrade materials during the postgame, especially if you’re farming Reales for Great Inagua upgrades. Naval contracts in particular are good for plunder — weakening and boarding ships mid-contract tops up your materials efficiently.

Upgrade Great Inagua Fully

Great Inagua is your base of operations throughout the game, but it’s worth investing serious Reales into it during the postgame. Two major trophies are tied to its development:

• Governor trophy/achievement — fully restore all buildings in the Great Inagua village. This includes the Guesthouse, General Store, Tavern, Harbormaster, Treasure Dealer, and the Mansion Façade, Tower, and Garden at the manor.
• Dilettante trophy/achievement — fill all art collection and equipment display slots in Great Inagua Manor. This requires all 11 Character Portraits, 9 Paintings, 41 Art Pieces, 20 Ship Models, 18 swords, and 12 pistols displayed in the manor. The Dilettante is one of the most time-intensive trophies in the game — start working toward it early.

The Edward the Legend outfit also unlocks by fully restoring and upgrading every building at Great Inagua, including the manor. The buildings also provide ongoing passive income, fleet slot bonuses, and shop inventory unlocks the longer you run them. Upgrading the Harbormaster first is the most efficient order since it unlocks the highest-tier Jackdaw upgrades.

Run Kenway’s Fleet Missions

Kenway’s Fleet unlocks after completing This Old Cove in Sequence 4 and lets you send captured enemy ships on trade route missions from the Great Inagua Manor map table. Every fort you capture opens up fleet missions in that region. Fleet missions run in real time and reward Reales, materials, and — critically — Art Pieces needed for the Dilettante trophy. Nineteen of the required Art Pieces come exclusively from sending Brigs on Piracy missions through the fleet system. The drop rate is random, so start this as early as possible and keep ships running at all times. Send Man-o-Wars alongside Brigs to lower the risk rating on harder routes and prevent losing ships permanently.

If you’re going for the Dilettante trophy, this is the single longest grind in the game. The trick is to let it run passively in the background while you handle other postgame activities. Our fleet guide covers how to capture and assign ships efficiently.

Solve All Treasure Maps

There are 22 treasure maps scattered across the Caribbean in Black Flag Resynced. Each one is a hand-drawn clue pointing to a buried chest somewhere on the map. Maps are found in chests, as quest rewards, and on enemies throughout the game. Solving them all rewards a significant haul of Reales, rare crafting materials, and unique weapons — some of the better mid-tier pistols and swords are exclusively locked behind treasure map chests. If you haven’t been keeping up with them during the main story, the postgame is the right time to clear them all. Our treasure map locations guide has every solution.

Complete the Four Animus Rifts

There are four Animus Rifts in Black Flag Resynced, introduced as optional narrative activities replacing the original game’s playable modern-day Abstergo segments. Each Rift explores a “what if” scenario tied to characters like Edward, Blackbeard, and James Kidd. They’re scattered across the Caribbean and appear as glitchy Animus portals in the world. Beyond the story content, each Rift rewards money, trade goods, and Data Fragments for Animus Projects. The first Rift appears on the southern coast of Great Inagua after completing Sequence 4. The others unlock as you progress the story. All four are still accessible post-story.

Farm Animus Projects for Free Gear

The Animus Projects system works like a free battle pass and continues generating rewards long after the main story ends. Complete Anomalies — white Animus logo icons on the map — to earn 700 to 900 Data Fragments each. These push your active Project’s reward track forward. If you’re only playing Black Flag Resynced and don’t own Assassin’s Creed Shadows, make sure Eye in the Dark is your active Project — it’s the only one where the final rewards are exclusive to Black Flag Resynced, including the Dark Animus Corsair Robes outfit and the Obsidian Monolith Trinket. Anomalies reset weekly, so there’s always a fresh batch to work through. For everything available for free in-game and through redemption codes, see our free legendary gear guide.

Finish Any Remaining New Side Quests

If you didn’t complete these during the main story, they’re all still available in the postgame:

• Blackbeard’s Treasure — unlocks automatically in Sequence 8 after Do Not Go Gently. Tracks down Blackbeard’s hidden treasure via a special map and serves as an emotional send-off for Edward Thatch. Our Blackbeard treasure map guide covers the full route.
• Captain Stede Bonnet — unlocks around Sequence 9 after Marooned. Gives Stede a proper narrative conclusion the original game never provided and unlocks bonus sea shanties on completion.
• Art Lover — Bernard’s 30-piece art collection quest, available from the Great Inagua Manor from Sequence 4 onward. Completing it earns an exclusive outfit. Some pieces come from Kenway’s Fleet, chests, and quest rewards — see how this ties into the Dilettante trophy above.
• Damn Fine Gear — a side quest involving Milo van der Graaff’s trading operation at Great Inagua, offering a mix of naval combat and assassination contracts with a story attached.

Capture All Remaining Forts

There are 11 forts across the Caribbean. Capturing a fort clears out its garrison, unlocks Kenway’s Fleet missions in that region, and rewards secondary firing modes for the Jackdaw’s weapons — one new firing mode per fort cleared. The more forts you hold, the more fleet missions you can run simultaneously, the faster you’ll earn Art Pieces for the Dilettante trophy, and the larger your passive income becomes. Capturing all 11 forts also contributes to 100% completion. Our fort capture guide covers the approach for each one, and our forts guide lists every location.

Explore Underwater Shipwrecks

There are 7 underwater shipwrecks across the Caribbean, accessible once you’ve unlocked the Deep Sea Diving equipment during the main story. Each wreck is a diving zone with multiple chests inside, often containing rare materials, weapons, and upgrade plans. The wrecks are among the best sources of high-tier crafting materials and Reales in the open world, especially the larger ones like the Antocha Wreck and Devil’s Eye Caverns. Clearing all seven wrecks contributes to a trophy and gives you some of the better resource stockpiles for the final Jackdaw upgrades. Use the unlimited oxygen accessibility setting if the diving sections give you trouble.

Collect All Animus Keys and Character Portraits

Animus Keys are collectibles worth 30 Keys each, scattered across the Caribbean. They become visible on the map after syncing nearby viewpoints. Collecting them all gives you a substantial amount of Keys to spend in the Animus Hub Exchange on legacy gear from other AC games, including Connor’s Outfit from AC3. Character Portraits are 11 paintings of key characters you collect and hang in Great Inagua Manor. They’re needed for the full manor display and contribute to the Dilettante trophy. Portraits don’t appear on the map automatically — you need to get physically close to them first. Three of the 11 require completing specific quests: Blackbeard’s Treasure, Captain Stede Bonnet, and A World Without Gold.

Harpoon the Great White Shark

Harpooning activities are available at marked spots across the Caribbean. One of the more memorable trophy moments involves getting a perfect harpoon throw on a Great White Shark — landing all harpoons cleanly without missing during a shark encounter. Beyond the trophy, harpooning is also one of the best ways to earn rare animal pelts for crafting health upgrades. See our healing items and max health guide for the full crafting path to increase Edward’s health pool.

Collect All Sea Shanties

There are 45 sea shanties in Black Flag Resynced — the original 35 plus 10 new ones added for the remake. Shanty sheets are found across the Caribbean in chests, as quest rewards, and tied to completing specific activities. Some are exclusive to finishing the Captain Stede Bonnet questline. Collecting every shanty is part of the full completion checklist and gets your crew singing the entire repertoire as you sail. Our shanties guide lists every location and how to unlock each one.

Trophies and Achievements Worth Prioritising

Black Flag Resynced has 50 trophies on PS5 and 49 achievements on PC and Xbox. Nothing is missable — full free-roam continues after the credits and everything remains available. The biggest time sinks are:

• Dilettante — fill all manor display slots. Bottlenecked by the 19 Art Pieces from Kenway’s Fleet. Start fleet missions early and keep ships running at all times.
• Devil of the Caribbean — sink all four open-world Legendary Ships.
• Governor — fully restore all Great Inagua village buildings.
• All Hands on Deck — recruit all five officers.
• Last To Leave — board a randomly spawning Burning Ship at sea and sit in a chair aboard it. This event is rare and entirely random — keep an eye on the horizon for smoke while exploring and act immediately when you spot one.
• Seven Deadly Seas — requires serious exploration across all regions of the Caribbean.
• Ship This — tied to Jackdaw upgrades and naval activity completion.

The Platinum run takes roughly 40 to 50 hours in total. The old multiplayer trophies from the original game are completely gone in Resynced — making this a far more achievable Platinum than the 2013 version. For our full guide, see the Owned trophy and achievement guide.

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