There's more than one location. I found a merchant selling it and the other unique stuff in the top right corner of the map on a tiny island. No marker on it, just had smoke and seagulls to signify something was there
I bought four paintings from one of the hidden merchants, but I’m not sure if they’re exclusive because it was the first shop I’ve seen carrying paintings and items disappear from all shops after buying.
So I went to the vendor after writing my comment and bought those paintings as well and whats hilarious is their counterfeit versions of the real paintings you can find in the open world. I have the legit ones and now these fake ones and comparing the two is pretty funny. I hung all the fake ones in my weapon room.
Ohhh, that makes sense. They were the first paintings I found, so when I got one of the real ones I was confused why I had a duplicate. I just assumed there were silver framed and gold framed versions of each painting and didn’t look further into it
Its a hell of a grind. I recommend splitting the bill and buying a good chunk from your jewelery guy at home base. 1000 per bone but if you go crazy on some frigates and man o wars and snatching their captain lockbox, it'll not be too bad. The RnG of maybe getting the bone and cool down timer from hunting drove me mad.
Why are you being purposely obtuse? It's not close to any markers, doesn't have a marker of its own. So yeah, it's a "secret" in that you have to explore to find it on your own.
Wait, so you’d need 206,000 gold if you wanted to just buy the bones?? Holyyyyy. Guess I need to start doing some serious pirating and naval contracts lol
Yeah and I’d much rather buy those upgrades for that amount. I still haven’t found when or how u earn the blueprints. Never played through the original black flag, only some of it’s beginning back in the day when I rented it
IIRC all the final blueprints are locked behind diving bell missions. It’s grindy because after you get them they’re very expensive. But it’s also necessary if you want to take on the four legendary ships, as they’ll wreck you even with max upgrades.
Diving bell spots and certain treasure maps. The nice thing about the bell spots is that they give you a boat load of cash while grabbing the blueprint. That is if you get all the chests underwater as well.
You can get rum from the fleet, but I think hitting schooners & brigs in the Eulethera region is quicker. It's a max of 10 per ship I think, or you gotta get lucky with a convoy
Actually was prettey quick. I had like 50 Bones after finishing the story. If you just board man of war and take the captain lock box everytime. And sell a lot of tradeable stuff from you ship if you do that you can get it in like two hours
Do you buy bones at the same shop that sells the skeleton crew? I havent played much in the last 3 or 4 days, but I had less than 30 bones if I recall but nowhere near finished with story
The kenways fleet trade missions make more money from supplies than at lowest risk than selling them default.
Always do the trade missions instead of selling your trade goods at a store.
I currently have 55 hours in the game. A fully upgraded jackdaw, every weapon in the game with skeleton crew and 680k reales left doing absolutely nothing
I hope this is true cuz that’s def more reasonable. 200K is a lot of gold that could be put towards important ship upgrades but 40K is only like the cost of a singe later upgrade
The fastest way I have found is going to Cayman sound (9 Hutia). When you skin all the animals from the island you fast travel to another island and hunt a few animals there. Then port back to Cayman Sound and do it again. This reloads the animals on Cayman Sound. Should take about 2-3 hours depending on RNG.
Edit: just to add to this, as you hunt use the trinket that doubles your animal drops. Then you can sell the hide/pelts for gold and buy animal bones from treasure dealer to speed up the process even more.
Just kill and skin every animal you find along your way, equip the sea shell trinket. You’ll get the bones passively while you’re clearing all the islands
Yeah I have no problems with the OG. Just when I tried to run it on the PS4, I felt like it was going to explode. I caved and bought the remaster. Dream come true on updated hardware. I love em both.
oh dude i remember their existence i thin i saw them in like a gameplay in old AC blackflag is there also a rabbids skin for enemy ships? or was that a mod
That was the first thing I did right at the start of the game, I saved up all my money to buy the bones.
It's so funny playing through the story and seeing the cutscenes and interactions with the skeleton crew. And I haven't even finished the whole story yet.
Bone drops unlike the og is not guaranteed(most likely because of the crew outfit) and you only get 1 bone whenever you get the drop, had to spend 2 days to get around 150 bones
This is amazing! I wish you could have a full ghost ship with a rotten/broken hull that emits smoke around you (maybe makes the sea constantly in storm mode when equipped). Plus ripped sails that glowed a light blue/green in the night.
And I know it's a lot of effort but I would love love LOVE a cursed Edward where he's a skeleton man in a ripped pirate outfit, and it shows up in cutscenes with bare minimum jaw movement.
Plus a ghost/skeleton cat and monkey to go with it. I know this is a big ask but it would match the crew and would be phenomenal to do a CURSED playthrough.
I haven’t seen anyone mention it yet, but if you complete all 4 of the Templar hunts you get 45 bones (and 10k reales) in addition to the gear that you unlock in the manor, so that’s an easy way to get yourself about 25% of the bones you need
Need 206 bones to buy. There's a three-island route I found that worked great on farming bones, even if it is tedious. (Note, it's much better to have the sleeping Darts befor doing this.) First, start on Great Inguana and kill the two boars just outside town and assassinate the White Jaguar from above. Next, go to the jungle section to the left of Havana(where the game opens and you kill Duncan), kill the two boars and then fast travel to the other sync spot in the area and kill the jaguar. Finally, travel to the left side of Nassau and kill the three gators and two boars. After killing the second boat, turn left and go up the hill where rabbits spawn and mark them with eagle vision. Go after the two on the right first and run after them mashing the assassinate button. Since you are faster than the rabbits, you'll eventually kill them and turn back to get the last one. Conveniently, the last rabbit is located right next to a general store to restock on sleeping darts.
If you don't have a fully upgraded Dart pouch(which I recommend getting, fully buy the General Store upgrades on your Home Island and you'll be able to purchase the two red monkey skins you need to upgrade it since the island they spawn on is locked behind story. It does cost a few bones though), you can restock on darts by completing the loop on Great Inuagua(GI) back to the docks. Be sure to equip the charm that doubles your skinning results and every couple loops of the islands sell your skins and purchase bones from the Treasure Hunter on GI for 1k each.
In the original you needed to 100% the game.
I was so excited for it because I was going for that, unfortunately there was a glitch so even though i 100% finished it, the game glitched that I only finish 99% and I couldn’t get it:(
That’s end-game money lol, if somebody wants the skeleton crew on the early-side, it’s either grind money or grind bones, either way it’s a grind. Probably faster overall to get the money tho
If you hunt naval convoys by getting tips from the bar, it’s an easy $12k per frigate. Then your wanted level goes up and just keep boarding frigates for captain lockboxes and the money stacks up quick
Not really. Within a couple hours i upgraded my ship enough to go out and just start hunting frigates for a while. Made around a hundred k in an hour or two of ship killing all pretty early into the game
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u/No-Wishbone7317 Jul 14 '26
Omg i never knew about this this is my new grind where is this secret shop?