The Great Inagua manor: the 111 objects that decide the platinum
Dilettante is held by 3.9% and the platinum by 3.8%: whoever fills the manor, platinums. Here is the breakdown and the save trick that halves the time.
And it counts towards The Memory of My Enemy, Governor, Zero Waste, required for the platinum.
Why this trophy is the platinum
There is one figure that explains everything about this game: Dilettante is held by 3.9% of players, and the platinum by 3.8%.
A tenth of a point apart means practically everyone who fills the Great Inagua manor ends up platinuming. There is no other obstacle behind it. This trophy *is* the platinum, and the other forty-nine are the road to it.
It is 111 objects across six collections:
- 41 art pieces - 20 ship models - 18 swords - 12 pistols - 11 portraits - 9 paintings
And here is the distinction that sets this trophy apart from any other collectible: finding them is not the problem. The problem is that a good share of the art pieces are not on the map: they are random rewards from the Kenway Fleet minigame, and those missions run in real time.
Which means it is not a trophy you can push through at the end. It is a trophy you start on day one and leave running in the background while you play everything else.
The game's codex carries hints about where whatever you are missing comes from. When you are down to a few objects, look there before sweeping the map blind.
The save trick: from 30 hours to 15
The Kenway Fleet works like this: you send your ships on missions, those missions take real time, and on return they hand you a reward. Some of those rewards are art pieces, and they show up or not at random.
Play it straight and you can send five missions, wait however long, and get none. Repeat that twenty times and there go your hours.
The method to force it:
1. Send your fleet on several missions at once — the piracy ones, skull icon, and the trade ones, scales icon. 2. Wait for them all to complete, but do not hand them in or check the reports. 3. Make a manual save right before turning them in. 4. Turn the missions in and look at which new missions appear. The game shows you the reward before you accept, so you can see whether it carries an art piece. 5. If none does, load the save from step 3 and repeat.
That practically guarantees a piece per round. The measured difference is around 14-15 hours with the method against more than double without it.
What the trick does not solve: the missions' completion time still runs in real time. Which is why you start early.
Keep your fleet stocked with at least 3-star ships: more stars means more health, and fewer repairs. Repairs eat linen, the most annoying resource to come by. Piracy missions use brigs and trade missions use schooners.
The other three Great Inagua trophies
The manor and the village give four trophies in total, and the other three are far more accessible.
| Trophy | Held by | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Governor | 45.6% | Restore every building in the village. The first level of each is enough: you do not need to take them to 3. It costs around 24,000 reales, and the money you put in comes back on its own, because the more restored the village, the more the manor's chest collects over time. |
| The Memory of My Enemy | 8.1% | Hang all 11 portraits in the manor. They unlock as the story advances, near the targets you eliminate, and some also require a side quest. The most demanding one needs you to have recruited every officer and completed the A World Without Gold line. |
| Zero Waste | 19.0% | Restore a single map from fragments. First you have to build the treasure trader in the village, one of the buildings you already restore for Governor. Fragments come from chests, smuggler dens, fleet missions and, rarely, from animals. |
The three are chained: Governor unlocks the trader you need for Zero Waste, and restoring the village is also what makes the manor's chest generate the money you will pay for everything else with. Do them in that order.
The trophies involved
Each one links to its section inside the full Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced trophy guide.