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AC Black Flag Resynced: Burning Ship Event Locations

AC Black Flag Resynced: Burning Ship Event Locations

Find timed Burning Ship events, learn their fixed spawn locations and unlock the associated achievement or trophy.
César Rebolledo · Updated: 14 Aug 2026, 20:16 · Published: 24 Jul 2026, 23:12

Among the activities involving the Jackdaw in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, you'll come across a special type of timed event known as Burning Ships. These events are tied to an achievement/trophy called Last to Leave, so you'll probably end up hunting them down at some point. What you may not know is that they're relatively easy to find.

How to find Burning Ship events

There are three things you should bear in mind when looking for a Burning Ship:

  • They are random timed events: they may appear after an unspecified amount of time, but there's no guarantee that one will spawn. You may find a regular ship convoy instead.
  • They involve opening chests on the deck before time runs out. If you're still aboard when the timer reaches zero, you'll die—although the ship will reappear when you reload your game.
  • They appear at fixed locations, with only a small amount of variation in their exact position.

It's this last point that matters most. Below you can see two fixed locations where Burning Ship events can appear: one is west of Castillo de Jagua, near The Black Trench, while the other is north of Chinchorro and southwest of The Black Trench.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced - Burning Ships, location of a burning ship
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced - Burning Ships, location of a burning ship

And here's the trick: spend some time completing activities in regions other than Castillo de Jagua or Chinchorro. After a while, fast travel to The Black Trench. From the spawn point, use your spyglass and you'll be able to see the Burning Ship if it has appeared at the first location shown above. If you can't find it, sail southwest to check the second location. If it isn't there either, try again later.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced - Burning Ships, burning ship seen through the spyglass

As for the Last One to Leave achievement/trophy, you need to make sure there's a chair in the middle of the deck. Bear in mind that whether the chair appears is random. This means you're dealing with two layers of randomness: first, the ship has to spawn, and then it has to spawn with the chair.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced - Burning Ships, chair in the middle of a burning ship's deck

All you need to do is board the ship and sit in the chair to unlock what may prove to be one of the trickiest achievements/trophies in the game, simply because obtaining it depends so heavily on luck.

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