Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Hints on Xbox One (X1)

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Metal to Upgrade the Jackdaw

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If you need more metal to upgrade the Jackdaw, attack civilian ships to increase your wanted level. This will cause military ships to come after you, which you can destroy and loot for metal.

Easy "Redingote Up!" Achievement

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There is an easy way to get the "Redingote Up!" achievement. If you do not want to spend the money to craft the Hunting Outfit, follow the steps below.

1. Save your game and copy the file to an external device, such as another hard drive or a flash drive.
2. Return to your regular save file.
3. Buy the Red Howler Monkey Skin and the White Jaguar Pelt from the Hunting Goods tab. All general stores will carry them.
4. Craft them into the Hunting Outfit.
5. Use the copy of your old save on your storage device to overwrite your save. You will have the achievement, but you will still have all your money.

How to Earn the Destroyer Achievement

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At the 9 locations listed below, you will find elite ship upgrade plans. Once you find all nine, you will get the "Destroyer" Achievement.

1. Elite Round Shot - Location: Kabah Ruins; Coordinates: 769, 145
2. Elite Hull - Location: San Ignacio; Coordinates: 379, 770
3. Elite Swivel Guns - Location: Devil's Eye Cave; Coordinates: 488, 353
4. Elite Harpoon - Location: Andreas Island; Coordinates: 579, 720
5. Elite Broadside Cannons - Location: The Blue Hole; Coordinates: 471, 170
6. Elite Heavy Shot - Location: Petite Cavern; Coordinates: 901, 263
7. Elite Fire Barrels - Location: San Juan; Coordinates: 479, 487
8. Elite Fire Barrel Storage - Location: Isla Providencia; Coordinates: 502, 44
9. Elite Ram - Location: La Concepcion Shipwreck; Coordinates: 181, 296

Earn Lots of Gold

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Follow the tips below to earn lots of gold.

1. Finish the side quests you receive, particularly assassination side quests, to be rewarded with lots of gold.
2. You can steal gold from citizens you encounter, although it is not as easy a method of earning gold as others listed here.
3. Manually loot the corpses of all of the enemies you defeat. Each will have a handful of gold. It adds up quickly, due to the number of enemies you kill.
4. When you encounter animals in the game, kill them and skin them. Their skins can be sold for gold or used when crafting.
5. While you travel in your ship, if you see materials you can salvage from the ocean, collect them to use or sell.
6. Since you're pirates, you should attack cargo ships to steal materials some of which you will want to use to upgrade your ship, but others of which you can sell for gold. Rum and sugar can always be sold.
7. Once you have upgraded your ship enough that you can fight high level ships, do so. They will have either a lot of gold or lots of materials and items on board.
8. Whenever you encounter survivors, recruit them into your crew right then, so that you don't have to pay to hire new crew members.
9. Whenever you see a treasure chest, open it. You can find gold, ammo, upgrades, and other items.
10. Grab all of the treasure maps you can find, because they will direct you to buried treasure chests, most of which are filled with gold.

Tavern Locations and "Barfly" Achievement

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At the 8 locations listed below, you will find 8 taverns. Approach each barkeeper to trigger a short cutscene and a bandit fight. Once you defeat the bandits, that tavern will count toward the "Barfly" achievement.

1. Location: Andreas Island; Coordinates: 573, 720
2. Location: Salt Key Bank; Coordinates: 496, 629
3. Location: Crooked Island; Coordinates: 808, 545
4. Location: Arroyos; Coordinates: 192, 565
5. Location: Corozal; Coordinates: 37, 266
6. Location: Grand Cayman; Coordinates: 392, 325
7. Location: Kingston; Coordinates: 623, 172
8. Location: Ile à Vache; Coordinates: 839, 137

Easy "Excavator" Achievement

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There is an easy way to get the "Excavator" achievement.

1. Go to Mariguana Island.
2. A treasure map is located at the coordinates 878, 539.
3. This map will lead you to a treasure on Andreas Island. It is at the coordinates 575, 717.
4. If you want to find more treasure maps, travel around the world and synchronize viewpoints or talk to barkeepers.

Easy "Hungover" Achievement

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There is an easy way to get the "Hungover" achievement.

1. Go to the bar at Nassau.
2. Interact with the bottle.
3. You must drink at least five times, and then you will pass out.

Easy "Killer Killer" Achievement

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There is an easy way to get the "Killer Killer" achievement.

1. Capture the fort at the "Cruz" area of the ocean.
2. Upgrade your ship's harpoon strength and harpoon storage.
3. Go to the fishing location at the coordinates 537, 340, or at others you can find on your map.
4. Interact with the fishing spot.
5. When the killer whale appears, throw harpoons at it while keeping your ship safe. You will eventually kill the whale.

Easy "Owned" Achievement

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There is an easy way to get the "Owned" achievement.

1. Go to Florida Island, located at the coordinates 409, 815. Unlike most areas, it only has a few activities you can complete.
2. Synchronize the viewpoint.
3. Find the two animus fragments.
4. Find the treasure chest.
5. Find the bottle message.

Easy "Silence, Fool!" Achievement

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There is an easy way to get the "Silence, Fool!" achievement.

1. Go to the Nassau warehouse, located at the coordinates 633, 784. (However, this will work at any warehouse, including ones you've looted in the past.)
2. Enter the restricted area, and an enemy will begin to ring the alarm bell.
3. As soon as he starts, kill him with a melee attack.

Easy "Siren Song" Achievement

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There is an easy way to get the "Siren Song" achievement.

1. Enter combat in order to lose some of your crew members.
2. Go to Kingston, located at the coordinates 623, 172.
3. You should see pirates that have been captured by enemies (if you don't, travel to another area and come back until they are there).
4. Nearby, find and hire two dancers.
5. Have the dancers distract the enemies, while you free the captives.

Easy "Wild West Indies" Achievement

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There is an easy way to get the "Wild West Indies" achievement.

1. Hunt animals for the items needed to craft all of the pistol holsters, or buy the items at general stores.
2. Craft every pistol holster.
3. Purchase the "Cannon-Barrel Pistol."
4. Select the pistol in the weapon wheel, approach a group of at least four enemies, and press Y to kill each enemy without aiming.

Reveal Location of All Collectable Items

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If you synchronize all of the viewpoints in the game, the locations of all collectible items will be revealed. You must conquer all of the Naval Forts to get the collectibles in the West Indies Sea.

Fast Material

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Raid lots of Bright to get lots of metal which is used to upgrade your ship.

Also when you are upgraded enough, look for many Wars because they carry a lot of money and cargo.

Unlock the Seven Deadly Seas Achievement

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After you finish Sequence 6: Memory 1, you will be able to find hidden shipwrecks. Search the 13 locations listed below to find all of the shipwrecks and unlock the "Seven Deadly Seas" Achievement.

1. Location: San Ignacio; Coordinates: 378, 769
2. Location: Petite Caverne; Coordinates: 901, 264
3. Location: Jiguey; Coordinates: 564, 539
4. Location: Atocha; Coordinates: 632, 661
5. Location: Black Trench; Coordinates: 221, 449
6. Location: San Juan; Coordinates: 480, 486
7. Location: Devil's Eyes Cave; Coordinates: 487, 356
8. Location: Anotto Bay; Coordinates: 622, 276
9. Location: Ambergris Key; Coordinates: 55, 177
10. Location: The Blue Hole; Coordinates: 470, 170
11. Location: Kabah Ruins; Coordinates: 768, 144
12. Location: La Concepcion Shipwreck; Coordinates: 180, 296
13. Location: Antocha; Coordinates: 629, 661

Animal Habitats, Items and Buy and Sell Price

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Check the table below for a list of every animal you can hunt in AC4 along with the animal's habitat, what items it will give up, and what the buy and sell price of the item is.

Animal	Habitat	Item	Sell Price	Buy Price
Rabbit	Nassau, Kingston, Corozal	Rabbit Pelt	70	700
Capuchin Monkey	Misteriosa Island, Tulum, New Bone	Capuchin Monkey Pelt	75	750
Green Iguana	Abaco Island, Andreas Island	Iguana Leather	90	900
Hutia	Cayman Sound, Long Bay, Jiguey	Hutia Hide	85	850
Deer	Kingston, Santanillas, Salt Lagoon, Principe	Deer Hide	150	1500
Ocelot	Andreas Island, Cumberland Bay	Ocelot Pelt	125	1250
Wild Pig	Nassau, Mariguana Island, Cape Bonavista, Great Inagua	Wild Pig Hide	150	1500
Howler Monkey	Kingston, Cape Bonavista, Principe, Long Bay, Cat Island, Tortuga	Howler Monkey Skin	100	1000
Jaguar	Cape Bonavista, Principe, Tulum	Jaguar Pelt	200	2000
Black Jaguar	Pinos Isle, Isla Providencia	Black Jaguar Pelt	300	3000
Crocodile	Nassau, Long Bay, Isla Providencia, Tulum, Matanzas	Crocodile Leather	200	2000
White Jaguar	Great Inagua, Cayman Sound (Opia Apito Templar Hunt)	White Jaguar Pelt	600	6000
Red Howler Monkey	Isla Providencia	Red Howler Monkey Skin	500	5000
Hammerhead Shark	Ocean	Hammerhead Shark Bone	400	2000
Great White Shark	Ocean	Great White Shark Bone	550	2750
Bull Shark	Ocean	Bull Shark Skin	580	2900
Killer Whale	Ocean	Killer Whale Skin	630	3150
Humpback Whale	Ocean	Humpback Whale Skin	700	3500
White Whale	Ocean	White Whale Skin	4000	20000

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