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Opinion: Sailing ship handling and travel

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Opinion: Sailing ship handling and travel

Opinion: Sailing ship handling and travel
Type Opinion
Videos 1 (first 2025-11-26, latest 2025-11-26)
Main source Sailing's Future in OSRS

Opinion: Sailing ship handling and travel is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-11-26. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Stats and numbers

  • The level 53 salvage spot in the bottom right of the map is very remote with no recover wizard, dock master or charter ship nearby, so you must start from Pandemonium and sail about eight minutes with early upgrades.1
  • Fully charting an area unlocks a very small number of rapids (speed boost panels) there, which Gnomonkey calls a good idea with terrible execution because there are so few and many are in out-of-the-way spots.2

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey dislikes that idle crew members wander around the ship with clickboxes, which can intercept clicks while steering.3
  • Gnomonkey says the sail and helm clickboxes are massive and easy to hit accidentally, plugins that deprioritise them help a lot, and plugins are basically mandatory for Sailing, while mobile is almost impossible.4
  • Gnomonkey argues Jagex should not rely on RuneLite to fix clickboxes because other clients like mobile need to work, and says the sails are far too big.5
  • Gnomonkey says the main early meta is to take a charter ship to a dock and pay a 5k recover wizard fee to bring your ship rather than sail, so players are incentivised not to sail anywhere and the ship feels like a ball and chain.6
  • Gnomonkey proposes a highway system of strong currents (maybe triple boat speed) looping around the main parts of the map, like the East Australian current in Finding Nemo, with recover wizards removed or unlocked later, making travel less tedious and giving the teleport unlock more weight.7
  • Gnomonkey thinks a highway system would also let players see each other and get more people actually sailing instead of running around on land dragging the boat with them.8
  • Gnomonkey says the ocean feels very empty, with long stretches of minutes with nothing happening, and odd clutches of krakens; he suggests more random events, castaways and sailing monsters, such as a superior-Slayer-style monster giving a 1k XP drop.9

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-11-26 Sailing's Future in OSRS Page created: 9 statements (opinion, stat)
## References

  1. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 42:17 ↩

  2. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 45:22 ↩

  3. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 39:50 ↩

  4. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 40:19 ↩

  5. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 41:20 ↩

  6. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 43:17 ↩

  7. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 44:17 ↩

  8. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 46:28 ↩

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

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