Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Crafting Guide

This guide will show you all crafting material requirements, tips on which components to upgrade first, and provide alternate ways to acquiring materials that don’t involve hunting in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced.

How Crafting Works in Black Flag Resynced

To access the Crafting menu, head to the Inventory menu. Below the gear is an anvil icon, select this to enter the Crafting Menu.

When you enter this menu, you’ll find second icons indicating what you can upgrade via crafting. Depending on your progress in the main story, some items may be locked out as you haven’t acquired their respective tools.

These affect the quantity of certain tools, their effectiveness, and the amount ammo available. You also have the Health Upgrade which will increase your maximum health.

Crafting Material Requirements

You’ll need animal components gained from hunting and harpooning. You’re not technically required to hunt animals to get these components, but it’s far easier to hunt them early on to make sure you get some key upgrades.

Smoke Bomb Pouch

This selection will increase the amount of Smoke Bombs you can carry. You start with a maximum of 3, but can achieve a maximum of 5 when fully upgraded. These are great to have if you need to make a getaway, or to assassinate a group of enemies mid-combat.

Tier	Effect
Base	Capacity 3
I	Capacity 4	2
II	Capacity 5		2

Pistol Holster

The Pistol Holster allows you to carry up to four pistols at a time. As your secondary weapon, this is an important item to craft upgrades for. You’ll upgrade it to Tier II during the early game quest “This Tyro Captain“.

Tier	Effect
I (Base)	1 Pistol
II	2 Pistols	2
III	3 Pistols		2
IV	4 Pistols			4

Pistol Ammo Pouch

When you acquire more pistols, it becomes easy to burn through all of your ammo while boarding ships. Upgrading your Pistol Ammo Pouch will help ensure you can blast all of your problems away for a longer duration of time.

Tier	Effect
Base	Max Ammo 10
I	Max Ammo 20	2
II	Max Ammo 30		2

Health Upgrade

Each Health Upgrades increases your total health by 25 hit points. When fully upgraded, you’ll have doubled the amount of hit points you started with. Since Remedies heal you fully, this allows you to get better use from them.

Tier	Effect
Base	100 HP
I	125 HP	2
II	150 HP		4
III	175 HP			4
IV	200 HP				4

Sleep Dart

The Sleep Dart’s upgrades increase the duration of its effect by 25 seconds with each tier. You unlock this once you acquire the Blow Pipe in the quest “Overrun and Outnumbered”.

Tier	Effect
Base	40s Duration
I	65s Duration	2
II	90s Duration		4

Berserk Dart

The Berserk Dart’s upgrades increase the duration of berserk by 15 seconds each tier. If you enjoy watching enemies kill each other, this is a good upgrade to invest in.

Tier	Effect
Base	30s Duration
I	45s Duration	2
II	60s Duration		4

Dart Pouch

Each upgrade with the Dart Pouch increases the total amount of Sleep Darts and Berserk Darts by 3. These two darts have different ammo pools, so at base you’ll have a total of 10 darts total. When fully upgraded, you’ll have a total of 22 darts.

Tier	Effect
Base	Capacity 5
I	Capacity 8	2
II	Capacity 11		2

Acquiring Animal Materials without Hunting or Harpooning

It’s understandable if you’re not entirely comfortable with killing animals for their skins and bones. Or maybe you don’t like harpooning sharks because they keep sinking your rowboat. Either way, there’s an alternative way to acquire animal materials.

General Stores offer various land and ocean wildlife components. Their variety starts out small, but you can increase their available components by upgrading the Great Inagua General Store.

By upgrading the General Store in Great Inagua, all other General Stores will have more stock to choose from. One thing to note about purchasing animal components from the General Store is that you can’t use reales to buy them. Instead, you’ll multiple bones per component desired.

Bones are dropped from land and ocean wildlife when hunted, but it’s not a guaranteed drop. If you want to acquire boned without killing animals, then you’ll need to build the Treasure Dealer at Great Inagua.

The Treasure Dealer sells bones for 1,000 reales a piece. While a bit pricey, it saves you the trouble of hunting and harpooning animals yourself. It’s especially useful if you can’t yet sail into more dangerous waters for rarer animals.

Which Upgrades to Craft First

There are three main components that you’ll want to upgrade first: the Pistol Holster, Pistol Ammo Pouch, and Health Upgrade. As you’re exploring and completing the main story, these will always be the most useful and consistent upgrades.

Having more pistols and bullets will allow you to more frequently quick fire your pistols to clear out ships you’re boarding. As most enemy sailors die in one hit from a pistol, this can quickly reduce moral so you can take over ships much sooner.

As you start boarding bigger ships such as Frigates and Man O’ Wars, you’ll be fighting a lot more enemies. Pistols alone won’t keep you alive, which is why you’ll need more health early on.

Boarding ships will be one of your primary ways of making money. The sooner you can more efficiently clear ships, the more money you can get to spend on bones for upgrading these core components even further.

You can upgrade the Smoke Bombs or Blow Pipe components at your leisure. While these are useful tools, their usefulness is rather small in comparison to your pistol and health upgrades.

If you like the harpooning mini-game, be sure to build a Fisherman’s Wharf on Great Inagua. This doubles the amount of skins gained from ocean wildlife (this does not affect land wildlife). Overall, your list of upgrade priorities should be:

1. Pistol Holster
2. Pistol Ammo Pouch
3. Health Upgrade
4. Smoke Bombs or Blow Pipe Components depending on preference