Finding all 16 Mayan Stones in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced opens a special door and gets you a unique outfit and trinket. It's an optional quest you won't be able to complete until further into the game, but you can work towards that goal from almost the first few hours. Finding them all and using them to get past that door, unlocks an incredibly useful power that basically makes you bulletproof. I've found them all myself and have the map coordinates you need to find all sixteen Mayan Stelae (including both the original, and the remake).
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All Black Flag Mayan Stone locations
There are the same number of stones in Black Flag Resynced and the original game. However, while most are in the same places for both, there's a Mayan Stela that's been massively repositioned in the Remake, with one of the Santanillas stones now moved to the new location, "Sacrifice Island". Plus, because the map has changed size in the new game, the coordinates are also different, even though the locations are technically the same.
Here's where to find them all below:
Island | Resynced Coordinates (2026) | Original Coordinates (2013) |
|---|---|---|
Great Inagua (Tutorial) | 823, 437 | 845, 468 |
Cat Island | 703, 670 | 734, 694 |
Cape Bonavista | 159, 584 | 179, 593 |
Tulum | 30, 382 | 70, 405 |
Tortuga | 846, 352 | 875, 379 |
New Bone | 400, 92 | 431, 116 |
Sacrifice Island | 18, 548 | (None) |
Pinos Isle | 311, 454 | 342, 478 |
Pinos Isle | 303, 452 | 334, 476 |
Santanillas | 187, 221 | 221, 242 |
Santanillas | (None) | 217, 245 |
Misteriosa | 273, 175 | 303, 199 |
Misteriosa | 265, 171 | 296, 196 |
Matanzas | 311, 617 | 343, 642 |
Isla Providencia | 476, 16 | 502, 44 |
Isla Providencia | 487, 33 | 502, 44 |
Long Bay | 502, 216 | 525, 253 |
It's important to note that you won't be able to get all the Stones until you complete a main quest mission called "The Observatory." That's because the Long Bay location is inaccessible until then, so your progress will be limited up to that point. That said you can start getting them almost as soon as you're out in the world, and it doesn't matter what order you collect them in.
How to solve Mayan Stone puzzles in Black Flag
To solve the Mayan Stone puzzles in Assassin's Creed Black Flag, you just have to climb on top of the Mayan pillar and hit the "investigate" prompt. Edward's Eagle Vision will trigger, and several rocks or pillars in the environment will be highlighted.
At the same time, a series of connected shapes will appear that you can move, rotate and resize. The goal is to shift these around until you fit them perfectly on the highlighted stones.
Once this has been completed correctly, a section of the ground will start to glow. Walk up to that spot and interact with it to dig up the Mayan Stone.
Mayan Stones reward in Black Flag
After getting all the Mayan Stones, return to Tulum and interact with the locked door marked by the side quest to open it. This will reveal a small platforming section that leads to a raised temple, inside here you'll get your reward: The Mayan Outfit, and, if you're playing the Resynced Remake, the Yax Tun Pendant, a legendary Trinket.
Outfits in Resynced have no effect, they simply provide cosmetic options. However, the Yax Tun Pendant makes the player immune to gunshots when worn. (In the original game, the outfit provided the bulletproof bonus on its own, without the additional trinket.)
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