Kingston Shanties Locations Guide (7)

Assassin’s Creed 4 has many collectibles to be found in the game. We marked all Shanties on the map of Kingston so you can locate them easier. Some of them have detailed explanations and screenshots attached, especially if they gave us trouble while looking for them. On the map bellow you can also see other collectible types and you can click on them to see guides for other collectible types as well.

1.Notes: From the nearest house/tree jump on top of a pillar that shanty is standing on. This way you won’t need to chase him down. If you however go toward him from the west, be assured that shanty flees east. When it fly over three house rooftops, it turns north, and continue that way until it despawn.

                                 Possible Animus Database song acquired: “Roll and Go”.

                                                                       Map Location.

2.Notes: Climb on southern, higher part of rooftop where this shanty is. From this location you can jump on rooftop level where is shanty, just few steps away. Chase for him, and you can catch him at the end of the same rooftop.

                                 Possible Animus Database song acquired: “Hand Me Boys”.

                                                                   Map Location.

3.Notes: This shanty stands between two trees. As you can not jump onto this location, you just have to run for it. If you chase for him from North, you can catch him two rooftops later.

                                    Possible Animus Database song acquired: “Cheerly Man”.

                                                                   Map Location.

4.Notes: This shanty is on ropes that connects building and nearby tree. If you jump on this rope from nearby house rooftop, you can find yourself one step behind it.

                               Possible Animus Database song acquired: “The Sailboat Malarkey”.

                                                                       Map Location.

5.Notes: Shanty at this location is bellow the wooden stick that comes out of a wall of a nearby house. Climb to house rooftop, and simply drop down to the shanty.

                            Possible Animus Database song acquired: “Good Morning Ladies All”.

                                                                       Map Location.

6.Notes: There is no other way then running in order to catch this shanty. If you follow the highest rooftop point, as you jump from a house north from it, you can catch it at ropes that connect this house and the one at south.

                            Possible Animus Database song acquired: “Hi-Ho Come Roll Me Over”.

                                                                      Map Location.

Kingston Viewpoints Locations Guide (6)

This is a map of all Viewpoints you can find in Kingston in Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. This counts towards 100% completion of the game. We also included explanations for some of the items with screenshots when we thought it would be difficult to find them just by its location. You will also see other collectibles on the map and clicking on them will take you to a page similar to this, only dedicated to that type of collectible. If you are having trouble locating any of these feel free to leave us a comment and we’ll try and add more detailed explanations.

Notes: Main mission that takes you to Kingston is called “Traveling Salesman”. When you complete it, you receive mission “Unmanned”. This mission takes you inside of Laurence Prins’s Manor. You can acquire this Viewpoint as you play “Unmanned” mission.

                                 Guards open Laurence Prins’s Manor gate in mission “Unmanned”.

                                                   Making it possible to take this viewpoint.

                                                               Viewpoint Map Location.

Kingston Map of Collectible Locations (5)

There are many collectibles to be found in each major location in Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. We compiled a list of all of them and marked them on the map bellow. Some of the collectibles are easily found on the location marked on the map, but we went a step further and created screenshot guides and walkthroughs for those particularly hard to collect items. Kingston has the following collectables marked on our map: 

• Animus Fragments: 13
• Chests: 17
• Manuscript: 6
• Shanties: 6
• Viewpoints: 9

We hope you find these maps useful and feel free to leave a comment if you find anything else interesting on this map.

AC4 Legendary Ships Guide (4)

In four corners of Caribbean Islands’ map, you can find five Legendary Ships. They are designed as extremely tough ships, level 75, with devastating fire power, and large amount of health. The battle begins once you get close enough, about 500 meters. Unlike the other ships, they are very fast, and you can’t get on them. Even without cargo like sugar, rum, cloth, metal or wood, they offer the best prize between 10,000 to 20,000R. Once you destroy all Legendary Ships, they will never respawn again. But, as we described in our Money Making Guide, you can farm some legendary ships and make a real fortune. 

Legendary Ships general information

1. After conquering a fort, a nearby legendary ship appears on the map.
2. Each ship has large amount of health.
3. Their side cannons unleash devastate power.
4. Some of them are pretty fast and you can’t catch them up, if you don’t incapacitate them first.
5. You can’t board them, thus, you can’t add them to your fleet.
6. The best attack during the battle with Legendary Ships is to ram them from behind.
7. If you mark them on the map, you can notice them when you come into their 500m radius.
8. The best practice is to start the battle with mortars.
9. You can destroy the ships even without all elite upgrades, but it takes a “couple” of tries.

El Impoluto

Location: Upper-left corner
The Nearest Fort: Dry Tortuga
Reward: 20,000R
Main Characteristics: Extremely fast, likes to rush/ram towards the target.
Strategy: The hardest ship to defeat, due to legendary speed and ramming behavior. From the start this ship tends to ram you down. If this legendary ship does not succeed in it, the next attack is a broadside cannons fire, thus, use the brace when you see cannons coming. 

When the battle starts, the best strategy against it is to slow down the ship, or El Impoluto will sail away, turn towards you, and ram you repeatedly, until you sunk. When the ship turns around, use your cannons and mortars. If the ship goes behind you, stop his ram strategy by letting off a few fire barrels.

HMS Fearless and Royal Sovereign

Location: Northeast corner
The Nearest Fort: Eleuthera
Reward: 10,000R each
Main Characteristic: When the battle against these two legendary ships starts, they will surround you and employ their broadside cannons against you. 
Strategy: When you approach them, attack one of the legendary ships from the side, keep moving and make sure you never get caught between them. Keep constant fire on the ship that follows you, and distance from the other one, with fire barrels. When you destroy one of them, the other one changes its behavior and becomes more hostile, and will try to ram you. 

The best strategy is to attack one of the boats, lower his health close to the sink, then ram the other boat and sink it as fast as possible. After that, the first boat will attack you, and you should sail away and launch mortars and fire barrels behind you. 

IMPORTANT NOTE: After destroying just one of them and collecting floating cargo left behind, try to run away or die. Your reward is 10.000R and you can repeat this action until you have enough money, since destroyed ship will respawn when you return, but only if you destroy ONE of the legendary ships.

HMS Prince

Location: Southwest corner
The Nearest Fort: Navassa
Reward: 20,000R
Main Characteristic: Even the ship is hidden in a fog, it’s one of the easiest Legendary ships to defeat.
Strategy: The best position for your ship is behind HMS Prince, since it has devastating broadside attack with cannons. If you successfully position your ship behind HMS Prince, hit it with chain shots and try to ram it. When you lower its health to 25%, it’ll attack you with rear cannons.

La Dama Negra

Location: Southwest corner
The Nearest Fort: Serranilla
Reward: 20,000R
Main Characteristic:Extreme fire power. Mostly attacks with mortars. It’s pointless to use ram strategy against this heavily armored ship.
Strategy: La Dama Negra legendary ship is very similar to the HMS Prince, since they have almost the same attack strategy. The only difference is that you don’t know where its mortal attacks will land, since it doesn’t show red target locations. The key factor for defeating the ship and winning 20,000R is to stop your ship or change sailing directions (moving zig-zag) whenever La Dama Negra fires mortars, because their landing position will be on your course a few meters in front of you.

Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag Warehouse Locations Guide (3)

If you need money, and you want to take a break from plundering ships on open sea, then plundering warehouses is your next step. There are 8 warehouses you can plunder in Assassin’s Creed 4, while the 9th one comes as a part of Exclusive Unlockable Content on new island, Black Island (985,626). Plundering warehouse grants you different amounts of wood, metal, cloth, run and sugar. There is a bonus reward for “No Bells Rang” that goes from 400R up to 1 000R. No Bells Rang bonus means that you have plundered warehouse without the alarm being raised. 

Additional facts about warehouse plundering:

1. There are 8 warehouses, scattered through 7 maps.
2. Mission “Sugarcane And Its Yields” takes you to the first warehouse you can plunder
3. In order to plunder a warehouse, you need to steal the warehouse key from a key holder.
4. Warehouses restock their storage after a while, thus, you can plunder them more than once. Also, they restock faster if you empty them completely.
5. Each Warehouse gives the same cargo loot every time you plunder it.

1. Cat Island Warehouse (737,693)

Key Holder Location: Cat Island Key Holder patrols west of central alarm bell.
Cargo: 20 wood, 35 metal, 35 cloth, 20 rum, 25 sugar
Value of Rum and Sugar: 800R
No Bells Rang Bonus: 400R

2. Havana Warehouse (240,607)

Key Holder Location: This is a small area, and you can spot Key Holder from nearby house rooftop. 
Cargo: 25 wood, 40 metal, 25 cloth, 20 rum, 20 sugar
Value of Rum and Sugar: 700R
No Bells Rang Bonus: 400R

3. Matanzas Warehouse (333,642)

Key Holder Location: You can find key holder in Northwestern Matanzas, south of letter location. 
Cargo: 75 wood, 40 metal, 50 cloth, 40 rum, 50 sugar
Value of Rum and Sugar: 1,600R 
No Bells Rang Bonus: 750R 

4. Nassau Warehouse (633,784)

Key Holder Location: Another small area where you can easily spot a Key Holder from the road, north of warehouse, since he patrols through the center part.
Cargo: 20 wood, 40 metal, 20 cloth, 30 rum, 20 sugar
Value of Rum and Sugar: 850R 
No Bells Rang Bonus: 400R

5. Tortuga Warehouse (878,371)

Key Holder Location: Key Holder in this area, patrols through eastern Tortuga, near the cannons that defense Tortuga island.
Cargo: 100 wood, 60 metal, 50 cloth, 60 rum, 75 sugar
Value of Rum and Sugar: 2,400R
No Bells Rang Bonus: 1,000R

6. Northern Kingston Warehouse (623,172)

Key Holder Location: Another small warehouse area. You can scout around warehouse for the Key Holder, without running into the red zone.
Cargo: 25 wood, 25 metal, 40 cloth, 25 rum, 25 sugar
Value of Rum and Sugar: 875R
No Bells Rang Bonus: 400R

7. Central Kingston Warehouse (623,172)

Key Holder Location: Key Holder, at this location, patrols through the central area around warehouse.
Cargo: 35 wood, 75 metal, 45 cloth, 50 rum, 40 sugar
Value of Rum and Sugar: 1,550R
No Bells Rang Bonus: – 

8. New Bone Warehouse (434,155)

Key Holder Location: Head southeast, diagonally from warehouse you will spot Key holder. 
Cargo: 50 wood, 100 metal, 60 cloth, 75 rum, 60 sugar
Value of Rum and Sugar: 2,325
No Bells Rang Bonus: 1,000R

Black Island Warehouse (985,626) – Exclusive Content

Cargo: 40 rum and Captain Morgan’s Pistols (Damage:3; Stun:1; Range:3)
Value of Rum: 750R
No Bells Rang Bonus: – 

To access the single player content in game, you need to first board the Jackdaw which is your ship. This will become available as part of Memory Sequence 3, Memory 4.

Once on the Jackdaw you need to approach and enter the cabin as shown below:

Details on accessing the individual parts of your content can be found below:

PISTOLS, SWORDS AND OUTFITS.

Once in the cabin as detailed above, approach the Mannequin and press the interact button.

Any redeemed weapons and outfits will appear in the appropriate menus and can be equipped from there.

SHIP SAILS, FIGUREHEADS AND WHEELS

The below guide shows how to equip the items, remember you still need to find the items on their respective Islands.
Once in the cabin approach the model of the Jackdaw and press the interact button.

Select Buy and then Jackdaw Appearance

Here, you will find any redeemed sails, figureheads and wheel

BLACK ISLAND / MYSTERY ISLAND / SACRIFICE ISLAND

The below guide shows how to equip the items, remember you still need to find the items on their respective Islands.
These additional islands will become available on your map, these should be marked clearly but you can see their locations below: