The heyday of piracy dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when European colonialists actively explored the lands of the New World, fought for world domination, and enriched themselves in every way possible at the expense of others. The desire for easy money attracted the attention of many adventurers and desperate people. Seekers of fortune, together with hunters of fortune, quickly became pirates, and only a few of them achieved success. Thanks to the vast expanses of water Caribbean, ships play a major role in Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag: they serve as both a means of transportation and a deadly weapon. Edward Kenway, unlike Connor, will get not “”, but “Jackdaw”, a “smaller bird”, but no less agile and insidious. All parts and compartments of the ship can be repeatedly improved, starting with large ones, for example, the hull, and ending with small ones - falconets and nipples. Each subsequent improvement requires more and more money and materials(wood, metal, fabric), which can be quickly obtained by looting sea convoys or selectively attacking trade caravans. All ship upgrades in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag can be installed from the captain's quarters (which serves as both home and headquarters) or purchased from any harbor captain. In the first case, just go to the model of the ship on the table to the right of the entrance and press the [E] key, in the second - visit Big City or island.

At the last stage, drawings are also added to the requirements, according to which unique parts will be made according to advanced technologies of its time. Blueprints for upgrading a ship in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag it is impossible to buy from merchants, they are not sold in any shop, but you can find them yourself by carefully exploring the islands and depths of the sea. Most of the drawings are stored, the rest is securely hidden on the ocean floor among the wreckage of ships and ancient ruins. To find treasures, you need maps that are located at the remains of adventurers, but Edward Kenway will be helped to lower Edward Kenway into the abyss of the sea by a diving bell, which appears in the middle of the game, when Blackbeard needs medicine to save Nassau. After installing all the improvements, the Jackdaw will turn from an ordinary military brig into a floating fortress, which will not be afraid of enemy forts, sea convoys, or the terrible giant krakens from folk tales and legends. Upgrades cannot be installed during battle, and warnings about upgrading a ship before starting a new story mission can be ignored (as a rule, no difficulties arise). Repair a ship on the ocean, without returning to the port captain on land, it is possible only after, when the necessary option appears in the report window, so soberly assess the strength of the enemy before attacking.


To maximize the improvement of the ship in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, 18 blueprints are available, 12 of which affect combat characteristics, others - only the appearance. You can lower a diving bell to the bottom of the ocean only at shipwreck sites, near sunken ships, marked on the map with a special icon held down with the [S] key (see legend - ). When diving underwater, algae and ship wrecks help to hide from sharks, and to speed up movement, for example, masts or bars, from which you can push off with your feet, not counting the pressed key. Sea urchins, moraines and jellyfish are harmful to health, you need to stay away from them. You can replenish your air supply underwater in air pockets, barrels or a diving bell (all of them are marked on the map). It is convenient to quickly change the direction of movement underwater using the arrow keys on the keyboard, rather than using the mouse. Finding all the drawings affects the completion of the Abstergo tests, and also unlocks some cheat codes and unlocks achievements in the Uplay and STEAM systems.


Location of blueprints for ship upgrades in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag:

  1. Special building() - the drawing is hidden under the water in a chest in the San Ignacio building (northwestern part of the bottom). After purchasing the upgrade, the Jackdaw's hull resistance will increase to 5,000 units, which will allow it to withstand several precise hits from a battleship.
  2. Special set of guns() - the drawing lies under the fragment of the ship’s hull in the Blue Abyss ( Northern part bottom). After purchasing an upgrade, the total number of cannons on the ship increases to 46, 23 on each side.
  3. Special ram() - the drawing lies on the ocean floor in a chest on upper deck ship "La Concepcion" (central part of the bottom). After purchasing the upgrade, the damage dealt to enemy ships during a collision increases to 4000 units.
  4. Special kernels() - the drawing lies in a chest in the nearest temple in the middle of the ruins of Kaba (the central part of the bottom). After purchasing the upgrade, the damage of regular cores increases to 100 units.
  5. Special falconettes() - the drawing is hidden in a chest at the end of the Devil's Eye caves. After purchasing the upgrade, golden falconets appear on the Jackdaw, and the damage from shots increases to 400 units.
  6. Special mortars() - the drawing is hidden in a chest in the captain’s cabin among the wreckage of “Antocha” (north-eastern part of the bottom). After purchasing the upgrade, golden mortars appear on the Jackdaw, and the damage from mortar cannonballs increases to 4000 units.
  7. Special compartment for mortar cannonballs() - the drawing is dug up along with the treasure in the jungle in the eastern part of Matanzas. The treasure map is located in the northeastern part of Tortuga Island.
  8. Special harpoon() - the drawing can be found among the treasures in the southwestern part of Andreas Island. The treasure map lies in a stone passage in the center of Mayaguana Island.
  9. Special heavy nuclei() - the drawing must be found in a buried chest behind the main Mayan temple, behind the viewpoint, at temple complex on Mysterios. The treasure map is located on the upper level of the smugglers' lair in Ambergris Caye.
  10. Compartment for special heavy cores() - the drawing is securely hidden along with the treasure in the southwestern part of the grotto in Petit Cavern. The treasure map is located in the northern part of Cayman Bay.
  11. Special incendiary projectiles() - the drawing is buried along with the treasure in the first room in the smugglers' lair in the tunnels under San Juan. The treasure map is located behind the broken bow of the ship in the northern part of Santanilla Island.
  12. Special compartment for incendiary shells() - to complete the “Scarlet Fever” mission to Eastern Canada through the captain’s cabin. If successful, the flotilla will bring with them a treasure map that will indicate the location of the buried chest on south coast Providencia Island, located between the palm trees behind the wreckage of the ship. After purchasing the upgrade, the maximum number of barrels with incendiary shells will increase to 40.
  13. Figurehead from Queen Anne's Revenge() - the drawing is hidden in a treasure chest in Havana. The treasure map is also found in Havana - on a corpse behind the cathedral, in the northern part of the city.
  14. Snake figurehead() - the drawing lies along with the treasure in a chest on the island of Salty Lagoon. The treasure map is located on Abaco Island.
  15. Aquila's helm() - the drawing lies in a buried treasure chest on the island of Pinos, in a clearing between main pyramid with a viewpoint and a large tree. The treasure map is kept on the southeastern coast of Cumberland Bay Island.
  16. Ebony steering wheel() - the drawing is hidden along with the treasure behind three wooden boxes on the shore in the eastern part of Kingston. The treasure map is located on the middle level of the destroyed Mayan pyramid in the center of Mysterios Island.
  17. Gray sails() - the drawing is hidden along with the jewelry in the pirates' lair on Nassau, north of the estate on the hill. The treasure map lies in a cave at the northwestern tip of Great Inagua Island.
  18. Floral sails(215.449) - the drawing is hidden in a chest in the wreckage of a ship in the “Black Hole” ( South part bottom).

A powerful force has returned to the rescue forces of the Pacific Fleet rescue tug

Built back in 1983 at the Admiralty Shipyard in Leningrad, the ship was regularly on duty in the waters for many years Indian Ocean, providing ships of the Navy. During this time, the Alatau crew took part in the rescue of several ships.

And since the nineties of the 20th century, after a decade of hard work, the ship was mothballed for more than 15 years in one of the ship repair yards in Vladivostok. Vessels of this class are very necessary for the Pacific Fleet, which is increasingly entering the ocean zone. Therefore, the Pacific Fleet command found opportunities to finance the repair of the rescuer. And now, after replacing the main mechanisms, the updated vessel returns to the permanent fleet readiness forces.

According to old tradition, the rescue crew decided to bless the tug. This honorable duty was performed by Archpriest Victor, who in his worldly life spent more than one year serving on a nuclear submarine.

Already next month, "Alatau" will arrive at its permanent base in Strelok Bay and begin to carry out its tasks. And next year its crew will have to go out to the ocean as part of the next detachment of ships.



For reference:

Sea rescue tugboat type "Jaguar" pr. 1452
Author of the project: Central Design Bureau "Baltsudoproekt" Leningrad, general designer Petr Semenovich Voznykh. These rescuers became his last job

Purpose: patrolling on the high seas, rescuing ships in distress, performing sea towing of ships and watercraft, firefighting, performing underwater technical work at depths of up to 60 m. rescuing people and providing medical assistance to victims.

Marine, steel, single-deck with an elongated forecastle and a three-tiered deckhouse, with an inclined bow on the surface and a bulbous bow in the underwater part and a cruising stern, diesel, twin-screw propeller propeller in non-steering nozzles and a thruster in the bow rescue tug.

"Pamir", "Mashuk", "Bars", "Jaguar", "Alatau", Karabakh (later Altai)
Alatau - was built without a bulb, has an additional special communications cabin in front of the pipe, different outlines of work stations in the stern and the ability to conduct underwater work at greater depths.

The first to be laid were the Navy rescuers, project 1452, in 1973 they laid down PAMIR, in 1974 they laid down MASHUK, and then the “civilian” BARS and JAGUAR. In 1982, ALATAU was founded and KARABAKH was founded in 1985. Such a delay in the construction of the series was due to the lack of slipway places in the USSR!

"Civilian" sisterships "Bars" and "Jaguar" (provided delivery military equipment and Cuban troops to Africa and ship repair work "as a result of the actions of the South Africans")

Tactical and technical data
Displacement, t:
standard: 3075
full: 4072
Dimensions, m:
length: 92.6
width: 15.39
draft: 5.85
Full speed, knots: 18.98
Cruising range: 15,000 miles (12 kts), 7,500 miles (18.98 kts)
Autonomy, days: 60
Power plant: 2x4500 hp, 58D-4R diesels, 4 DGR-300/750-1 diesel generators of 300 kW each, 1 DGA-100-2 diesel generator of 100 kW
Number of rescued people: 16
Armament: 1x2 57 mm ZIF-31B – then removed
2x2 25 mm 2M-3M – then removed
RTV: 2 Don navigation radars, Rumb radio direction finder

Purpose of the sea rescue tug of the "Jaguar" type (project 1453): patrolling on the high seas, rescuing ships in distress, performing sea towing of ships and watercraft, fire fighting, performing underwater technical work at depths of up to 60 meters, rescuing people and providing medical assistance to victims . Year of construction of the lead vessel: 1975. Power: 6600 kW (9000 hp). Maximum length 92.7 meters, crew 35 people.

A set of drawings of a sea rescue tug of the "Jaguar" type consists of twenty sheets of A3 format.

  • Theory on a scale of 1:100;
  • General views (scale 1:200);
  • work boat and lifeboat (scale 1:50);
  • Chimney;
  • Searchlight, navigation devices;
  • Beam crane, winches (M 1:25);
  • Add-on plans;
  • bulwarks;
  • Lanterns (M 1:5);
  • Gangway, anchor;
  • Davits;
  • Antennas

The scale of the theory is 1:100, while the length of the hull of the ship model is about 90 cm.
Publisher and developer: “Private military-historical archive” under the leadership of A. A. Garmashev, St. Petersburg. 2011. The condition over the years has not been ideal.

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In Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, Edward Kenway's ship, the Jackdaw, can eventually turn into the pride of the captain, if, of course, the captain improves his nurse in a timely manner.

You can improve all parts of the ship using what you got in battles or plundered by the honest labor of a pirate: money, metals, wood, fabrics, hemp, etc.

All improvements must be installed either from the captain’s cabin (go to the ship and press the hot key [E]), or during purchase from captains in ports.
But besides the obvious improvements, there are also special improvements that you can’t buy anywhere. These are blueprints that can be used to equip a ship with the latest technology from the Golden Age of Piracy.
We have summarized all such drawings, their coordinates, descriptions and tips for finding them in the table below.

Location of special blueprints for ship upgrades

Coordinates Drawing name Features of use Where to find
215,449 Floral sails --- Hidden in a chest among the wreckage of the Black Hole ship in the southern part of the bottom
379,770 Special building Hull resistance + 5000 units.
Now the ship can withstand even several precise hits from a battleship
Hidden underwater in a chest in the San Ignacio building in the northern part of the bottom.
633,784 Gray sails --- Hidden in a pirate lair on Nassau, north of the hill estate. You will find the drawing only along with treasures on the same island. Treasure map o. Nassau is located on Greater Inagua (633,784)
471,170 Special set of guns The total number of guns will increase - 23 on each side, for a total of 46.Hidden in a shipwreck in the Blue Abyss (northern part of the bottom)
623,172 Ebony steering wheel --- Hidden with treasure in east Kingston. The treasure map is on the island Mysterius (623,172)
181,296 Special ram Increased damage to an enemy ship during a collision + 4000 units.Hidden on the ocean floor in a chest in the remains of the ship La Concepción (upper deck)
769,145 Special kernels + 100 damage to regular cannonballs.Lies in the central part of the bottom among the ruins of Kaba
487,357 Special falconettes + 400 units to damage from shots,
golden falconets appear
You will find the Devil's Eye in a chest at the end of the caves.
630,660 Special mortars + 4000 units to damage from mortar cannonballs,
golden mortars appear
You will find it in the northeastern part of the bottom below the deck in the remains of the ship "Antocha"
333,650 Special compartment for mortar cannonballs --- You will find it along with the treasure in the Matanzas jungle. The treasure map is on the island Tortuga(333,650)
307,195 Special heavy nuclei --- Find it among the treasures in the Mayan temple on Mysterios. Look for the map in Ambergris Key (307,195)
579,720 Special harpoon --- Hidden among the treasure on Andreas Island. You will find a map of the treasure lying in a stone passage in the center of the island. Mayaguana (579,720)
901,263 Compartment for special heavy cores --- Together with the treasure in the southwest of the grotto in Petite Cavern. Look for the treasure map in the north Cayman Bay ( 901,263) .
502,44 Special compartment for incendiary shells --- We complete the task “Skardatina” and if the outcome is positive, the flotilla will bring a treasure map. Travel with this card to the island. Providencia, where behind the wreckage of a ship in the south of the island among the palm trees you will discover both a treasure and a drawing
479,487 Special incendiary projectiles --- Along with the treasure in the tunnels, the floor is San Juan. You will find the map on Santanilla (479,487), in the north of the island.
240,607 Figurehead from Queen Anne's Revenge --- Hidden with treasure in Havana. You will find the map here in Havana, on a corpse in the northern part of the city behind the cathedral, not far from the mixed goods store
335,469 Aquila's helm --- Together with the treasure on the island. Pinos. Look for a clearing between the main pyramid with a viewpoint and a large tree. You will find a map of the treasure on the southeastern coast of the island. Cumberland Bay.
749,625 Snake figurehead --- Together with the treasure on the island. Salty lagoon. Look for a treasure map on the island. Abaco