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Opinion: Procedural voyages for Sailing

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Opinion: Procedural voyages for Sailing

Opinion: Procedural voyages for Sailing
Type Opinion
Videos 1 (first 2025-04-02, latest 2025-04-02)
Main source Sailing has potential to be... (OSRS)

Opinion: Procedural voyages for Sailing is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-04-02. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey proposes procedural voyages where you (solo or with friends) sail to a voyage tier you have access to, beyond the map edge, where a chunk of map with islands, resources, activities and monsters is procedurally generated, ending in a big main objective such as a boss in a volcano island dungeon.1
  • Gnomonkey says he spent more time in the alpha randomly sailing around, using detached camera to look at islands, than training, and considers exploration the most engaging part of Sailing.2
  • Gnomonkey says YouTuber Jimmy had the same take and experience, noting exploration of an island can only be done once, and Jimmy also suggested procedural voyages.3
  • Gnomonkey says Wind Waker's islands each have something unique (a cannon fortress, a hollow giant tree, a volcano to cool, an ice-breathing dragon to heat), and procedural voyages could have 10 to 20 distinct main island varieties to avoid being samey.4
  • Gnomonkey suggests voyages list the resources you can find (ores, trees, hunter creatures) and ships have equipment slots, so you can drop an auto drill or ship chainsaw to harvest ore or logs while you explore and return to some resources and a small chunk of XP.5
  • Gnomonkey suggests the ship equipment could give only small XP chunks (for example 2k Woodcutting or 3k Mining) as a bonus, not the primary training method, and could also include a cannon that blows a hole in an island to access a dungeon, or a storage chest for extra potions.5
  • Gnomonkey says voyages should not be separate from the game world, and players should bring their own supplies and haul back loot such as treasure, oars, logs and fish, because a self-contained supply system feels like a minigame.6
  • Gnomonkey pictures dark corners of the new Sailing map labelled with level requirements and themes, such as a fiery 'Volcanic Fissure' voyage, with different level brackets.7
  • Gnomonkey says he does not want procedural voyages to be like Dungeoneering, where you are stripped of items and make everything from scratch.8

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-04-02 Sailing has potential to be... (OSRS) Page created: 9 statements (opinion)
## References

  1. Sailing has potential to be... (OSRS), 2025-04-02. ▶ 3:58 ↩

  2. Sailing has potential to be... (OSRS), 2025-04-02. ▶ 4:52 ↩

  3. Sailing has potential to be... (OSRS), 2025-04-02. ▶ 5:24 ↩

  4. Sailing has potential to be... (OSRS), 2025-04-02. ▶ 14:54 ↩

  5. Sailing has potential to be... (OSRS), 2025-04-02. ▶ 17:23 ↩↩

  6. Sailing has potential to be... (OSRS), 2025-04-02. ▶ 19:51 ↩

  7. Sailing has potential to be... (OSRS), 2025-04-02. ▶ 20:19 ↩

  8. Sailing has potential to be... (OSRS), 2025-04-02. ▶ 21:21 ↩

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