This Tyro Captain is the eighth mission in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, and it is the point where the game stops holding your hand. Once it wraps, Edward Kenway has both a quartermaster and the Jackdaw, so the Caribbean stops being a corridor and turns into the open sandbox the series is known for. Abaco Island, sitting nearby in the Eleuthera region, is one of the first stops worth cleaning out afterward.
Quick answer: Complete This Tyro Captain to gain the Jackdaw and your quartermaster. Abaco Island then holds 1 Viewpoint, 1 Chest, 3 Secrets, and 2 Friendly Animals. Sync the Viewpoint first to mark everything except the animals on your map.
What completing This Tyro Captain unlocks
The main payoff of the mission is the Jackdaw itself, the brig you captain for the rest of Edward’s story. With a quartermaster on board, ship combat, boarding, and open sailing all become available, and the world map fills in as you visit new islands and forts.
From here you can chart your own route. The sea map stays fogged until you conquer forts, and many islands only fully unlock as the story advances. Abaco Island is one of the areas you can reach early, which makes it a natural first target once you have the ship.
Abaco Island loot and collectibles (Eleuthera region)
Abaco Island is a compact location with a short checklist. Compared with hubs like Havana or Nassau, there is very little to track here, which makes it a fast full clear.
| Collectible type | Count on Abaco Island |
|---|---|
| Viewpoints | 1 |
| Chests | 1 |
| Secrets | 3 |
| Friendly Animals | 2 |
Abaco has no Mayan Stelae, tavern, or contracts, so there is no reason to backtrack for missable side content. Chests give Reales you will want for ship and hideout upgrades, and the Secrets round out the island’s tracker.
How to reveal Abaco Island collectibles on the map
Note: The only collectibles that never show up from Viewpoint syncing are Portraits and Friendly Animals. Portraits are gated behind story progress and appear when you approach them, so Abaco’s animals are the only entries here that require a bit of legwork.
Which Abaco collectibles count toward 100%
For trophies and achievements, only a specific set of collectibles matters across the whole map. On Abaco Island, the 2 Friendly Animals are the entries that feed directly into a completion requirement, since 8 Friendly Animals are needed in total.
The Chest and Secrets are still worth grabbing. They pay out Reales and other rewards you will spend on upgrades, even though they are not tied to a completion trophy on their own. Here is where the required categories sit for the broader 100% run.
| Required for 100% | Total needed |
|---|---|
| Forts | 11 |
| Underwater Shipwrecks | 7 |
| Legendary Ships | 5 |
| Officers | 5 |
| Friendly Animals | 8 |
| Portraits | 11 |
| Paintings | 9 |
| Art Pieces | 41 |
| Ship Models | 20 |
| Swords | any 18 |
| Pistols | any 12 |
You will know Abaco is finished when its individual tracker reads full and every icon in the type filter is cleared. Because there is free-roam after the story and nothing is missable, you can always return to top off the animals or any Secret you skipped.
Treat This Tyro Captain as the gateway mission it is. Get the Jackdaw, sync the Abaco Viewpoint, filter the map, and the island’s tiny loot list falls in a single visit, with the two animals doing double duty toward your 100% total. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC through the Ubisoft Store, Steam, and the Epic Games Store.
