Black Powder Merchant achievement

Explain what is black powder merchant achievement. I can’t recall

@musgao7056 Do you mean commendation?

@burnbacon

A Merchant Alliance commendation for delivering 100 gunpowder barrels on time (i.e. completing a merchant contract for them you found out on the seas, since they're no longer part of animal fetch voyages with this last update).

EDIT: and the corresponding achievement for completing said commendation

You still get odd bottle quests but I agree it does seem to have fallen into a gap. I did it not long ago by rerolling merchant cargo runs until I had a mission for 3 or more

@musgao7056 said in Black Powder Merchant achievement:

How we suppose to do the achievement now? Is the hardest grind in the whole game now in season 11
Merchant message in a bottle voyages the same way you do wood cannon ball and fruit voyages! I got 3 yesterday while completing oos voyages with the reapers mark flag up be sure to stop for shipwrecks and large islands for beaches

It is defacto no longer obtainable. Only thing you can do is always check for bottles because from whaf i have heard they still can be found in there but in hundreds of hours since last season i have not seen one a single time.

Yea the grind for merchant has become impossible. Not only for kegs but also for every other crate (fuit, wood, cannonball).
Mike Chapman anwered on a tweet that they are looking into that, but that was at the release of season 11.