Flinthook – All Black Market Upgrades and How to Unlock Them

Other Flinthook Guides:

• 100% Achievement Guide.
• All Bosses and How to Defeat Them + Endings.
• How to Find the Secret Dev Room.
• What are Bounties?
• Ship Types.

Black Market Upgrades – Technique

Aim Lock Boots

• Description: FREE! Unlocks the Aim Lock ability. Press G to lock in place and aim with [the mouse].
• Effect: Grants the player the ability to stand in place as they aim and shoot at enemies.
• Cost: Free!
• Unlock: Comes with the Black Market

Flawless

• Description: You’re rewarded with gold for flawless battles against the pirate hordes!
• Effect: Grants the player a Flawless token (worth 10 gold) for each Battle Room completed without taking damage.
• Cost: 5 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 5

Swift

• Description: You’re rewarded with gold for ending battles swiftly!
• Effect: Grants the player a Swift token (worth 10 gold) for each Battle Room completed within a set amount of time.
• Cost: 5 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 5

Quickhook

• Description: The legendary Quickhook! Use it to latch onto rings and zip around!
• Effect: Allows the player to latch onto rings, tear away bubbles, and open doors.
• Cost: Obtained during the tutorial.
• Unlock: Comes with the Black Market

Blasma Pistol

• Description: A very special Blasma pistol! Use it to blast scallywags away!
• Effect: Allows the player to hold their own against the pirate hordes.
• Cost: Obtained during the tutorial.
• Unlock: Comes with the Black Market

Chrono Buckle

• Description: The time-bending Chronobelt! Use it to slow down the flow of time itself!
• Effect: Allows the player to slow time in short bursts.
• Cost: Obtained during the tutorial.
• Unlock: Comes with the Black Market

Compass

• Description: Slimey, the Mapping Mollusk! Feed him Ghost Gems to find bounties across the cosmos!
• Effect: Allows the player to discover and track down bounties.
• Cost: Obtained during the tutorial.
• Unlock: Comes with the Black Market

Black Market Upgrades – Subweapons

Spinning Skulls

• Description: Unlocks the Spinning Skulls subweapon. Use them to spawn a spiral of skulls at the enemy!
• Effect: The Spinning Skulls subweapon can be found in-game.
• Cost: 4 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Reach level 10

Fighting Bell

• Description: Unlocks the Fighting Bell subweapon. It makes its wearer invincible for a short amount of time!
• Effect: The Fighting Bell subweapon can be found in-game.
• Cost: 8 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Reach level 15

Frost Globe

• Description: Unlocks the Frost Globe, a subweapon capable of freezing your enemies for a short amount of time!
• Effect: The Frost Globe subweapon can be found in-game.
• Cost: 4 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Reach level 5

Bomb

• Description: Unlocks the explosive Bomb subweapon!
• Effect: The Bomb subweapon can be found in-game.
• Cost: Obtained during the tutorial.
• Unlock: Comes with the Black Market

Black Market Upgrades – Wisdom

Perk Plus Plus

• Description: Adds two extra Perk Points to your perk meter! It expands the number of perks you can equip, matey!
• Effect: Grants the player 2 additional Perk Points to allocate.
• Cost: 2 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Comes with the Black Market

Perk Plus Plus

• Description: Adds two extra Perk Points to your perk meter! It expands the number of perks you can equip, matey!
• Effect: Grants the player 2 additional Perk Points to allocate.
• Cost: 2 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Comes with the Black Market

Perk Plus Plus

• Description: Adds two extra Perk Points to your perk meter! It expands the number of perks you can equip, matey!
• Effect: Grants the player 2 additional Perk Points to allocate.
• Cost: 4 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Reach level 5

Perk Plus

• Description: Add an extra Perk Points to your perk meter! It expands the number of perks you can equip, matey!
• Effect: Grants the player 1 additional Perk Point to allocate.
• Cost: 5 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Reach level 5

Perk Plus

• Description: Add an extra Perk Points to your perk meter! It expands the number of perks you can equip, matey!
• Effect: Grants the player 1 additional Perk Point to allocate.
• Cost: 5 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Reach level 10

Perk Plus

• Description: Add an extra Perk Points to your perk meter! It expands the number of perks you can equip, matey!
• Effect: Grants the player 1 additional Perk Point to allocate.
• Cost: 10 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Reach level 15

Perk Plus

• Description: Add an extra Perk Points to your perk meter! It expands the number of perks you can equip, matey!
• Effect: Grants the player 1 additional Perk Point to allocate.
• Cost: 10 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Reach level 20

Perk Plus

• Description: Add an extra Perk Points to your perk meter! It expands the number of perks you can equip, matey!
• Effect: Grants the player 1 additional Perk Point to allocate.
• Cost: 15 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Reach level 25

Perk Plus

• Description: Add an extra Perk Points to your perk meter! It expands the number of perks you can equip, matey!
• Effect: Grants the player 1 additional Perk Point to allocate.
• Cost: 15 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Reach level 30

Sharp

• Description: Get more XP depending on your grade!
• Effect: Increases experience gain by 1% per level.
• Cost: 4 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Reach level 5

Market Value

• Description: Get more XP per Black Market item you’ve bought!
• Effect: Increases experience gain by 1% per Black Market Item purchased.
• Cost: 8 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Reach level 20

Curio

• Description: Get more XP per Relic you’ve found!
• Effect: Increases experience gain by 1% per Relic and Achievement obtained.
• Cost: 4 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Reach level 10

Shaving Kit

• Description: I guess you don’t really need a shaving kit, but it gives you more XP, I swear! 
• Effect: Increases experience gain by 10%
• Cost: 2 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Comes with the Black Market

Dumbbell

• Description: You’re pumping some iron and that gets you more XP, friend!
• Effect: Increases experience gain by 10%
• Cost: 4 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 5

Flinthook Flag

• Description: Your own flag! It adds some panache and some XP too!
• Effect: Increases experience gain by 10%
• Cost: 4 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 10

Flinthook Doll

• Description: A Flinthook doll! A popular new toy around the galaxy. Flattering but also bumps your XP!
• Effect: Increases experience gain by 10%
• Cost: 6 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 15

Statuette

• Description: Only bigtime collectors get that statuette! Comes with extra XP!
• Effect: Increases experience gain by 10%
• Cost: 6 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 20

Wanted Poster

• Description: The Cluster Clan is putting those up to catch you! But it gives you a heaping of XP!
• Effect: Increases experience gain by 20%
• Cost: 12 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 30

Astro-Postage Stamp

• Description: A stamp! What an honor. This gives you an XP boost, for sure!
• Effect: Increases experience gain by 20%
• Cost: 15 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 40

Pink Matter

• Description: A big glob of pink stuff. There’s nothing else like it in the cosmos. A lucky charm.
• Effect: Increases experience gain by 10%
• Cost: 100 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 40

Puncher

• Description: The greatest gift for a faithful Black Market client. One last lucky charm.
• Effect: Increases experience gain by 10% (and possibly other stuff)
• Cost: 250 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 50

Tribute Code

• Description: You figured the secret Tribute code, enjoy extra XP and other cool stuff!
• Effect: Increases experience gain by 10% (and possibly other stuff)
• Cost: 1 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Solve the riddle hidden in The Song of Black Margot – more details in the Secret Dev Room Guide.

Black Market Upgrades – Health

Hale N’ Hearty

• Description: Get some stamina! Add more HP to your Max HP!
• Effect: Increases the player’s max health by 10.
• Cost: 5 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Comes with the Black Market 

Hale N’ Hearty

• Description: Get some stamina! Add more HP to your Max HP!
• Effect: Increases the player’s max health by 10.
• Cost: 5 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 5 

Hale N’ Hearty

• Description: Get some stamina! Add more HP to your Max HP!
• Effect: Increases the player’s max health by 10.
• Cost: 10 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 10 

Hale N’ Hearty

• Description: Get some stamina! Add more HP to your Max HP!
• Effect: Increases the player’s max health by 10.
• Cost: 10 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 15 

Hale N’ Hearty

• Description: Get some stamina! Add more HP to your Max HP!
• Effect: Increases the player’s max health by 10.
• Cost: 15 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 20 

Hale N’ Hearty

• Description: Get some stamina! Add more HP to your Max HP!
• Effect: Increases the player’s max health by 10.
• Cost: 15 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 25 

Hale N’ Hearty

• Description: Get some stamina! Add more HP to your Max HP!
• Effect: Increases the player’s max health by 10.
• Cost: 20 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 30 

Hale N’ Hearty

• Description: Get some stamina! Add more HP to your Max HP!
• Effect: Increases the player’s max health by 10.
• Cost: 20 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 35 

Hale N’ Hearty

• Description: Get some stamina! Add more HP to your Max HP!
• Effect: Increases the player’s max health by 10.
• Cost: 25 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 40 

Hale N’ Hearty

• Description: Get some stamina! Add more HP to your Max HP!
• Effect: Increases the player’s max health by 10.
• Cost: 25 Black Market Coin
• Unlock: Reach level 50 

Black Market Upgrades – Hardcore

Bad Billy Bullseye Rex

• Description: Unlock the hardcore version of Bad Billy Bullseye
• Effect: Allows the player to switch between the hardcore and normal version of the Bad Billy Bullseye bounty.
• Cost: 20 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Defeat Bad Billy Bullseye 

Goldfeathers Rex

• Description: Unlock the hardcore version of Goldfeathers
• Effect: Allows the player to switch between the hardcore and normal version of the Goldfeathers bounty.
• Cost: 30 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Defeat Goldfeathers 

Baron Von Guu Rex

• Description: Unlock the hardcore version of Von Guu
• Effect: Allows the player to switch between the hardcore and normal version of the Baron Von Guu bounty.
• Cost: 40 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Defeat Baron Von Guu 

Gwarlock Rex

• Description: Unlock the hardcore version of Gwarlock
• Effect: Allows the player to switch between the hardcore and normal version of the Gwarlock bounty.
• Cost: 50 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Defeat Gwarlock 

Infinite Raid Rex

• Description: Unlock the hardcore version of Infinite Raid
• Effect: Allows the player to switch between the hardcore and normal version of the Infinite Raid bounty.
• Cost: 50 Black Market Coins
• Unlock: Defeat Goldfeathers 

Black Market Upgrades – Keepers

Emeraldon

• Description: Once a captive of Captain Grimble, this cheerful Keeper is on your side to help you free his friends and rekindle the Galactic Lighthouse!
• Unlock: Defeat Tusky Grimble 

Greenifer

• Description: Freed from the Dueling Deaths, this friendly Keeper is ready to help you rescue her brethren and rekindle the Galactic Lighthouse!
• Unlock: Defeat The Dueling Deaths 

Fernionne

• Description: Having escaped from Vorace Horace, this friendly Keeper is ready to help you liberate her buddies and rekindle the Galactic Lighthouse!
• Unlock: Defeat Vorace Horace 

Written by Zarentron 3.