Achievements & Trophies Guide — All 50 Trophies, Roadmap & Tips

Complete trophy guide with roadmap, difficulty estimates, and tips. Data from PowerPyx post-launch verification.

Quick Facts

Category	Detail
Total Trophies	50 (1 Platinum, 1 Gold, 11 Silver, 37 Bronze)
Platinum Difficulty	3.5/10
Time to Platinum	40-50 hours
Online Trophies	0
Missable Trophies	0
Glitched Trophies	0
Difficulty Affects Trophies?	No — play on easiest
Minimum Playthroughs	1
Free Roam After Story?	Yes
New Game+	Confirmed in development; no release date
Mission Replay	No

Important: The trophy list has changed from the 2013 original. Old guides are no longer applicable — some item locations and map coordinates have changed, and multiplayer trophies are replaced with new single-player content trophies.

Trophy Roadmap

Step 1: Story + Random Trophies (15-20 hours)

Play through the main story on any difficulty. Work on these luck-based trophies from the start:

Dilettante (Silver): 19 random Art Pieces from Kenway's Fleet Brig Piracy missions. Capture 5 Brigs, constantly send them on missions. Make a manual save before accepting fleet reports — reload if no Art Piece mission appears.
Last to Leave (Silver): Find a Burning Ship event with a chair. Extremely rare (~5% chance). Farm by fast-traveling to The Black Trench (184, 425) from Great Inagua, reloading if no ship spawns.
The Hangman (Bronze): Kill 10 enemies with rope dart hangings from trees/beams. Work on this throughout the story.
Glutton for Nourishment (Bronze): Consume 20 food items from the environment (not healing charges).

Step 2: Collectibles (20-30 hours)

Collectible	Count	Trophy
Forts	11	King of the Castle (Silver)
Underwater Shipwrecks	7 (68 chests)	Seven Deadly Seas (Bronze)
Legendary Ships	5	Devil of the Caribbean (Silver)
Character Portraits	11	Memory of My Enemy (Bronze)
Officers	5	All Hands On Deck (Bronze)
Friendly Animals	8	Friend to All (Bronze)
Ultimate Plans	12	Ship This (Silver)
Cartographer Locations	57	Cartographer (Silver)
Art Collection Pieces	41	Dilettante (Silver)
Paintings	9	Dilettante (Silver)
Ship Models	20	Dilettante (Silver)
Swords (any 18)	18+	Dilettante (Silver)
Pistols (any 12)	12	Dilettante (Silver)

Step 3: Cleanup (1-2 hours)

Wrap up remaining combat trophies and any lucky drops you haven't gotten yet.

Highlight Trophies

Trophy	Rarity	How to Get
Devil of the Caribbean	Silver (Hardest)	Defeat all 5 Legendary Ships
Last to Leave	Silver	Find a Burning Ship with a chair — 5% chance per spawn
Dilettante	Silver	Fill ALL decoration and equipment slots in Great Inagua manor
Grandmaster	Silver	Win all 3 tavern games (Nine-Man Morris, Checkers, Fanorona) on 1-star
Ship This	Silver	Find all 12 Ultimate Upgrade Plans
Gun-kata	Bronze	Kill 4 enemies with pistols within 5 seconds
Governor	Bronze	Restore all 7 buildings in Great Inagua village (23,100 Reales)
Friend to All	Bronze	Interact with all 8 types of friendly animals

Most-Searched Trophy Solutions

Unsinkable

Requirement: survive a rogue wave that hits the side of the Jackdaw.

Repair the Jackdaw before entering a storm or open-sea battle.
When the rogue-wave warning appears, rotate so the wave reaches the ship's broadside rather than the bow.
Brace for impact and remain afloat after the hit.

The storm escape at the end of Sequence 2, Memory 6: The Treasure Fleet is the guaranteed opportunity on a new save. In free roam, rogue waves are random and current player reports describe long waits, so take the side hit whenever one appears instead of trying to force a specific coordinate. If repeated valid side hits do not unlock the trophy, preserve the save and report the platform and encounter to Ubisoft's bug tracker.

Overdesign IV

Requirement: kick a berserk enemy caught in smoke off a ship.

Use a boarded ship with surviving enemies near a railing:

Hit an enemy near the rail with a Berserk Dart.
Drop a Smoke Bomb so that same enemy is inside the cloud.
Move between the target and the ship's rail.
Use the contextual kick or takedown to send the enemy overboard.

Use the most reliable order: Berserk Dart first, smoke second, overboard kick last. If it does not unlock, reset the encounter and confirm the darted target is still inside the smoke when the final kick begins. The first Berserk Dart upgrade needs 2 Deer Hide.

Blow the Man Down

Requirement: shoot down all three hanging bodies in Long Bay, which opens during or after Sequence 10, Memory 3: The Observatory.

Fast travel to the Long Bay viewpoint around (505, 232). Shoot the first body's rope directly below the viewpoint, then follow the sandy path and keep looking upward for the other two bodies a short distance apart. The trophy unlocks after the third body drops; it is unrelated to the sea shanty with the same name.

Use the dedicated Blow the Man Down route for the three-body checklist, approximate coordinates, and troubleshooting.

Dilettante

This requires every Art Collection and Equipment slot in the Great Inagua manor, not just the 41 Art Pieces:

Collection	Required
Art Pieces	41
Paintings	9
Ship Models	20
Character Portraits	11
Swords	18
Pistols	12

Of the 41 Art Pieces, 19 are random Brig Piracy Fleet rewards. Start those missions early, send up to five Brigs at once, and make a manual save before accepting completed Fleet reports so you can reload when the next mission set has no Art Piece reward.

Tips

Play on Forgiving difficulty — trophies aren't gated
Use Kenway's Fleet constantly — Brigs for Art Pieces, Schooners for money
Save before accepting fleet reports and reload to re-roll missions
Prioritize recruiting Officers first — they give passive ship abilities
Free roam opens after Sequence 4, but some areas are story-gated
No current Mission Replay means use manual saves before rare or setup-heavy encounters
Ubisoft's game director has confirmed New Game+ is in development, but no release date has been announced