Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced: Best Money Farming Strategies
If you want to make the most of your time in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, you’re going to need A LOT of gold Reales (and other materials).
If you’re coming into Resynced expecting the old pickpocket loops or animal respawn glitches from the original release, those are gone. But that’s not a bad thing, because the legitimate paths built into this version are faster and more consistent than those old exploits ever were. Here’s exactly how to stack reales without relying on anything that’s been fixed.
Getting Your Foundation in Place
Before you can really start printing money, you need to push through the main story to Sequence 4. That unlocks the Great Inagua base camp, which is the backbone of everything else on this list. Once that’s open, you get access to manor passive income and Tier 2 and Tier 3 Jackdaw upgrades. Don’t skip ahead or try to shortcut this part. Everything downstream depends on having that base camp online.
Where to Spend Your Early Resources
Once you’ve got some coin coming in, prioritize your ship upgrades in this order:
- Hull Strength first, since you need to survive extended combat before you can profit from it
- Heated Shot and Heavy Shot to shred enemy hulls faster
- Mortar for crowd control against groups of ships
- Additional broadside cannons to increase your overall damage output per volley
This combination gets the Jackdaw into fighting shape quickly without wasting resources on upgrades that don’t directly speed up your farming loop.
Recruit Your Officers Early
Don’t sleep on Officer Missions. Getting the Shipwright and Master-at-Arms on your crew as early as possible pays off immediately. The Shipwright gives you passive repairs so you’re spending less time limping back to port, and the Master-at-Arms gives you stronger bracing along with the Ram Dash, which turns your ship into a much more aggressive tool in combat. Both of these directly reduce downtime, and downtime is the enemy of any farming strategy.
Build Out Your Tavern Network
Taverns are your intel network, and you want all four unlocked as soon as possible: Havana, Salt Key Bank, Nassau, and Great Inagua. Unlocking each one requires winning a brawl, and the trick here couldn’t be simpler. Press L1 to parry and Triangle to counter. That’s it. You’ll blow through these fights without breaking a sweat.
Once a tavern is unlocked, pay the barkeep 100 reales for exact Naval Convoy locations. This is the single most important habit to build into your playthrough, because convoys are where the real money lives.
The Trinket Combo That Changes Everything
This one’s easy to overlook, but it’s worth the investment. Gather 15 to 16 artworks or models to unlock the “Found Coin” trinket from Bernard. Then pair it with the “Lodestone” trinket, which you can buy from the upgraded General Store. Together, these two auto-loot extra reals, ammo, and gadgets every time you board an enemy ship. It sounds small, but across dozens of boardings, that passive loot adds up fast.
Strategy 1: Low-Level and Safe
If you’re still building up your ship and don’t want to risk getting sunk, this is your bread and butter early on.
Stack every active Naval Contract you can find, then pay a barkeep for a convoy rumor. Fast travel as close as you can, then move in to intercept. Take out the escort ships first, but don’t sink the main convoy leader. Disable it and board it instead.
Once you’re on deck, always select the “Captain’s Lockbox” option after boarding. That’s a direct 2,000 to 3,000 real payout plus trade goods every single time.
For the boarding itself, fire your swivel gun immediately at powder barrels or clustered enemies to thin the herd fast. Once you’re moving through the deck, pistols give you instant kills, and smoke bombs let you chain assassinate groups before they even know what’s happening.
Strategy 2: High-Yield With an Upgraded Ship
Once your Jackdaw is properly kitted out, head to the waters directly south of Great Inagua. This spot consistently spawns English and Spanish Frigates, and more often than not, you’ll find them already fighting each other. Let them soften each other up, clean up whoever’s left standing, and board them back to back.
Loot every Lockbox you can, then head to a vendor and sell off all the trade goods you’ve accumulated. Runs here regularly net 20,000 to 40,000 reales, which puts this strategy in a completely different tier compared to early game convoy hunting.
Don’t Forget Your Manor
Your manor is quietly one of the best passive income sources in the game if you actually maintain it. Buy both dockside Camp Upgrades to raise your passive income rate, and make a habit of visiting the manor vault regularly. Each visit nets you 2,000 to 3,000 reales sitting there waiting for you.
The key here is reinvestment. Don’t just pocket that cash and move on. Put it straight back into upgrading the manor further, which raises both your income rate and your storage cap so you’re not leaving money on the table between visits.
Follow this progression and you’ll go from scraping by in the early sequences to swimming in reals by the time you’re running convoy routes south of Great Inagua. Combine this with the settings guide and the Jackdaw Upgrade Efficiency Guide already on the site, and you’ve got everything you need to run Black Flag Resynced the smart way.
