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Charting

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Charting

Charting
Type Mechanic
Videos 2 (first 2025-11-04, latest 2025-11-26)
Main source Sailing's Future in OSRS

Charting is a mechanic topic that Gnomonkey covers in 2 videos between 2025-11-04 and 2025-11-26. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Methods

  • Charting a new area gives one-off XP, like an XP lamp for finding a new area; it is not a consistent training method.1
  • Port tasks send you on back-and-forth missions such as killing sharks at sea or delivering cargo, giving XP.2
  • Weather charting uses a tool from a troll that tells you the wind direction toward the centre of a large wind circle, and you must find the exact pinpoint centre tile, which can sit in dangerous water.3

Stats and numbers

  • After the day one XP complaints, Jagex buffed early Sailing training for levels 1 to 30 by 20% on all methods and made charting about three times better than it was.4
  • Charting potions found while exploring give XP drops and are part of charting an area, and have wacky effects such as shooting 99 fireworks above your head.5
  • A bug caused some charting potions that teleport you to make players lose their cargo (potentially thousands of cannonballs) and the ship, forcing a recovery fee; Jagex took days to fix it and later returned items to people.5
  • One charting potion hits for 90 damage, and Gnomonkey describes a clip of an ultimate ironman losing a three-billion death stash after a summoned tiny troll meleed for around 45 with a four-tick max hit and he could not teleport away in time.6

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey likes the exploration and charting in Sailing, finding all the little XP drops and getting a big XP boost for fully charting an area, and enjoys being able to do it with friends.7
  • Gnomonkey says early Sailing levels have very little variety and charting makes the early levels go by much more easily and enjoyably than other early options.8
  • Gnomonkey wishes charting and exploration were front and centre as a main training method, with more XP for exploration instead of simply following a duck or solving a riddle.9
  • Gnomonkey dislikes that charting is hard level gated; his wife could not get charting spots in the Temporos area because she lacked the level to tank it in her ship, and he would prefer soft gates that teamwork or tanking could get around.10
  • Gnomonkey dislikes that some charting potions teleport you or bank everything (Banker's Draft banks your whole inventory and worn items), because it takes you out of exploring and forces you to work out where you were.11
  • Because the potion effects are punishing, Gnomonkey says players are heavily incentivised to stockpile charting potions and drink them all at once in a safe location rather than spreading them out.12
  • Gnomonkey says using the duck for charting is super annoying because it moves slowly; a couple of ducks he did took over three minutes for one step among many hundred charting locations, and he would like them sped up by double or triple.13
  • Gnomonkey says doing weather charting manually would take about 10 to 20 minutes apiece, over 10 times slower than the duck, so players just use the wiki or a plugin; he thinks the click area should be more generous so it is doable without them.14

Events

  • Early on, players discovered double salvage spots and routed Barracuda Trials by exploring, which Gnomonkey found maybe the most fun thing about the skill.15
  • Gnomonkey tried duo charting off stream with his wife, who was level 1 Sailing, taking her around on his boat at about level 60 to get all the charting spots, and found it very fun.16

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-11-26 Sailing's Future in OSRS Added: 15 statements (event, method, opinion, stat)
2025-11-04 SAILING PREP BLOG (OSRS) Page created: 2 statements (method)
## See also

References

  1. SAILING PREP BLOG (OSRS), 2025-11-04. ▶ 10:04 ↩

  2. SAILING PREP BLOG (OSRS), 2025-11-04. ▶ 10:24 ↩

  3. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 50:26 ↩

  4. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 25:55 ↩

  5. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 47:00 ↩↩

  6. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 48:29 ↩

  7. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 22:21 ↩

  8. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 23:54 ↩

  9. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 33:50 ↩

  10. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 34:51 ↩

  11. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 47:56 ↩

  12. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 49:24 ↩

  13. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 49:52 ↩

  14. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 51:54 ↩

  15. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 22:53 ↩

  16. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 23:22 ↩

Mechanics

Colosseum invocations • Yama contracts • Invocations (Tombs of Amascut) • Jal-ImKot • Inferno pillars • Jal-Ak • Alt account • Thralls • Nex gear setup • Tempoross • Turael • Inferno waves • Jal-Nib • Doom of Mokhaiotl: rock block method • Monkey Room • Fortis Colosseum pillars • Phantom barrage • Awakened bosses • Melee gear progression • Demonic Brutus • Jal-MejRah • Prayer flicking • Butterfly Tech • Fortis Colosseum setup • Doom of Mokhaiotl: melee punish • Sulliuscep • Botting • Off-ticking • Corner trapping • Doom of Mokhaiotl: car attack • Combat Achievements • Doom of Mokhaiotl: shield phase • Pest Control • Blood Barrage • Nylocas • Great Olm 4-1 method • Nex reset • Triple Jad • RuneScape 3 combat • Tightrope skip

Category: Mechanics