What Is Sailing? | Old School RuneScape New Skill | Partnered with ScreteMonge

Old School RuneScape is working on a brand-new skill. This video is the final part of a longer series has covered ongoing development of Sailing. We're working closely with the community and welcome your feedback every step of the way. We can't do this without you!
The poll to "lock in" Sailing is now live in-game! Cast your vote now!
BLOGS
⭐ FINAL BLOG: osrs.game/Sailing-Blog
⛵ NAVIGATION - osrs.game/Navigational-Mechan...
🎮 CORE GAMEPLAY - osrs.game/Sailing-Core-Gameplay
✨ REWARDS - osrs.game/Sailing-Rewards
📚 INTEGRATION/LORE - osrs.game/Sailing-Integration
PARTNERS
We've partnered with ScreteMonge to create this awesome video.
📺 Video created by community creator, ScreteMonge.
🎨 Thumbnail created by community artist and 2021 Golden Gnome winner Hooti Tooti.
Make sure to follow their channels below:
⭐ / scretemonge
⭐ / hooti_osrs
#oldschoolrunescape #NewSkill #OSRSNewSkill #OSRSMobile #Sailing #OldSchoolRS

[@illmaso786]

Honestly I feel like it’s very obvious that the OSRS team cares deeply about their game and it’s playerbase. The level of depth they’ve gone into preparing sailing and keeping the community informed every step of the way says a lot. We are blessed to have such a great team working on OSRS.

[@nicolasfranco9749]

Yeah, at least they learned something from irreparably ruining the game with EOC.

[@Just_Flipy]

rs3 or runescape as well, but it seems they HAVE to push 40% of the content as MTX :(

[@HawkAnomaly]

@@nicolasfranco9749 EOC itself works great for the game. shame people arent good enough to learn a complex combat system that can be both easy and less rewarding or hard and very rewarding.

[@rabbitspeed9]

@@nicolasfranco9749 EOC definitely split up the game, but it's really too bad that some people are still incapable of finding out how fun bossing in RS3 can be. Just because it takes more than 10 seconds to understand, or because it doesn't fit their idea of what rs "ought" to be. The first is skill issue, the second is subjective.

[@redeyeskuriboh2839]

Well we found who bought it hook line and sinker LOL

[@SamuraiNyak]

Runescape dropping better content than Diablo 4

[@imabud1203]

Necromancy is a big hit, seems like the oldschool team and the rs3 team are both focusing on quality.

[@freakoffer]

I am loving necromancy sadly getting 86 archeology for a quest is quite the god damn slog man... But still lots of fun@@imabud1203

[@reveler279]

@@imabud1203 necromancy will be the final nail in rs3's coffin, invalidating every other combat style and every boss that drops weapons for those combat styles will have horrible consequences for the state of the game (for osrs players out of the loop, imagine if when fang was added it was actually bis for every single piece of content in the game, and now imagine it dropped from barrows, now imagine they buffed it after release instead of nerfing it. thats necromancy)

[@SikGamer70]

@@reveler279 this reads like someone who hasn't even tried the necromancy skill and just hates change.

[@ILoveTVShowsAndStuff]

@@SikGamer70to be fair if he was afraid of change I’m sure he’d be on old school

[@martgoorts7801]

20 years... 20 years i've waited for this skill and it's finally coming. It's beautiful.

[@Rmtj51psn]

I can’t wait to see how Rendi breaks the game and gets into Ape Atoll before doing monkey madness on a new account lol

[@juliefj3dis3aopf7jsm9d]

They need to hire him as a QA tester

[@bknighty28]

Hard disagree, Those type of things happening in a game like RS is part of the magic. Just make sure to catch and fix dupes@@juliefj3dis3aopf7jsm9d

[@shroomjak200]

​@@juliefj3dis3aopf7jsm9d that bridge is burnt

[@DubstepSon]

@@shroomjak200 why is it

[@shroomjak200]

@@DubstepSon didnt rendi and jagex have their back and forth where they were accusing rendi of using bug abuse for him and his groups personal gain

[@666evo666]

Does this mean that we can finally get a new Sea Shanty track if sailing passes (make it happen lads vote yes) ?

[@Corzappy]

Sea Shanty 3 🔜 ™️?

[@Randompersondoesntmatter]

Bump

[@007kingifrit]

oh that's a good point, i'd have a new sea shanty =D

[@user-pr6zj9du9t]

unlock it after buying the skillcape

[@LizardYup]

I hope so

[@dopeysith5503]

Another great ship cosmetic would being able to use boss head's/items change the look of our ship such as a figurehead, or styling of our ship (similar to how it is with slayer helmets)

[@Nirr0]

I have so many vork heads I guess I'm rocking a blue dragon boat, chuu chuu.

[@007kingifrit]

could have some stats, mast heads on ships should be a thing tho

[@adamharper162]

Someone suggested this on reddit and Twitter as well. Excellent idea

[@mymtb2182]

I voted for shamanism, but i am so glad sailing is going ahead seeing this. I’m hyped, i think it will just do nothing but add to the game! Big up Jagex!

[@Lead1121]

Great thing is, it doesn’t mean shamanism isn’t coming. It’ll just be voted on later down the line

[@lv100Alice]

think of all the stuff they will have learned after sailing comes out. shamanism gonna be so good if they add it

[@johnnytee911]

​@@Lead1121in like 10 years maybe lmao

[@patrickhouse9005]

Shamanism was always the best , sailing was literally a meme for years , leaving things up to vote is a mistake

[@jihadityrone2197]

Im glad shamanism didnt win that one out of all three options has the biggest chance of ruining the game.

[@beefjaba]

This video has swayed my opinion on sailing, the work done so far looks great.

[@casualaviation5447]

I don't see it, really genuinely think this will be the start to the end of OSRS if it passes.

[@petermitchell7851]

@@casualaviation5447why?

[@casualaviation5447]

@petermitchell7851 seems mostly mid level players or newer players to the game over the veterans are voting for it and the veterans are the ones constantly paying for the game, spending most on bonds or have multiple members accounts. Just from what I've seen anyway.

[@justinkuzara4696]

@@casualaviation5447 Why is that a problem? It seems to me like adding more content for new / mid level players to enjoy would make those players more likely to continue playing the game. Is that not what we want?

[@casualaviation5447]

@justinkuzara4696 new / mid level players aren't the ones spending money on the game, generally it's the veterans (not in all cases but most) because why would people invest a lot of irl money into a game they barely play, without that income OSRS won't have the money for constant development / new content or extra staff, hence me saying it's the beginning of the end. So no.. we really do not want that.. unless you're a fan of the game dying.

[@GooTheMighty]

I love the idea of Elvarg “gently shooing away” new players who haven’t finished Dragon Slayer yet. For lore reasons, I hope Crandor is actually dangerous to approach. Think about how much more eager someone would be to actually beat Elvarg if they had previously lost a ship to her!!

[@omegahaxors3306]

I will never forgive Elevarg for killing Cabin Boy Jenkins T_T

[@Momotarou0311]

BOB!!! NOOOO!! Oh wait, wrong quest

[@Keon994]

but most people would have already slayed Elvarg.....

[@ThisNameWasTaken0]

Make a lower level and introduce an ancient ancestor of Elvarg who’s like lvl 700 and make areas with high level monsters

[@Hava_niceday]

I bought a sailboat in real life to prep for this skill ! Can’t wait to grind sailing while sailing !!

[@gearfear3017]

That’s awesome! What a dream. You should make a KZbin video sailing while sailing if it comes out.

[@GrueStudios]

It's time to set sail!

[@GrueStudios]

@@Golemrock598 that’s all I ask of anyone who would vote no, to actually give it consideration, thank you!

[@everettgibbons5829]

they gotta make miscellenia a port where you can export your goods to different areas for increased profit. Tower defenses there for unfriendly boats would be sick as well.

[@Sedgehun]

Actually so glad about the development this historical game is still in the midst of!

[@Dankesthill]

you should be able to recruit Captain Siad from tourist trap as he has been talking about sailing 19 years now

[@007kingifrit]

the meme has passed, you're late

[@itscodester6462]

@@007kingifrit always 1 rat who ruins the fun

[@samthelad4313]

You could tell Captain Siad used to be a sailor just by the cut of his jib

[@GuttormTheOne]

Super hyped! Sounds like a lot of fun coming our way!

[@Stoddgaming]

Looks great! Keep the good work guys! Can’t wait 🔥

[@chazefez9625]

Ngl boys, this seems like a lot of fun! Bit hesitant on how big of an impact it has on the rest of the game, but if implemented correctly it could be very cool! Cautiously optimistic.

[@yuyuyu312]

Thank you for all the hard work that has gone into refinement! Very excited to see how the rest of development goes!

[@MrRunnerChris]

Thank you OSRS for always listening and staying true to the PLAYERS ❤

[@MegaVidFan1]

Oh my gosh, I suggested a sailing skill akin to Construction like.... 13 years ago on the forums! I can't believe all these years later, they've finally added it into the game! I'll have to check this all out, I'm really excited to see how it works.

[@moe3120]

these ideas sound amazing, i wish the osrs team ebst of luck, cant wait for the amount of content this will bring

[@redeyeskuriboh2839]

And this is why the game is being ruined. Content content content. Doesn't matter what it is, just as long as you get more things to ravage and burn out on within a week.

[@HyBrad]

​@@redeyeskuriboh2839As a veteran player (over 20 years... I picked up Christmas Crackers on Christmas), I find this specific idea refreshing. I love the direction classic has taken.

[@hiyafalkor3630]

This feels very osrs. Great job guys.

[@OSRS2ndBase]

This looks really cool - I’m all for it

[@skurptheyurp]

I genuinely enjoy how silly most of the recent marketting has been, OSRS has a certain whimsey to it and im glad the team is embracing that

[@the-jar]

The idea of being able to use using hunter, slayer, and sailing to hunt sea monsters has actually got me more excited about this game than anything else in probably years

[@thehaunting]

this sounds amazing. great work osrs team

[@ellamint360]

Expeditions sound so awesome. Procedural generated dungeons are exactly what OSRS needs. The randomness makes gear prep so much fun. Similar to dungeoneering but without the skill attachment. They could take expeditions outside of sailing and release them annually alongside raids.

[@alexdelhoyo9179]

We all played rs3 just for dungeonering at some point.

[@Weltshmerz]

​@@alexdelhoyo9179oh definitely

[@apolloniusbeitsman5444]

​@@alexdelhoyo9179not at all. I quit when dungeoneering came out.

[@JohnFromAccounting]

@@alexdelhoyo9179 Gauntlet is dungeoneering lite. My only problem with dungeoneering when it came out was that it didn't feel like a proper skill since there was no purpose outside of the dungeon crawling sub-game.

[@alexdelhoyo9179]

@@JohnFromAccounting gauntlet is endgame and highly repetitive. Islands exploration could have more diverse and would only be part of the sailing skill.

[@EonNShadow]

I legitimately thought Sailing was a joke and not a real skill that's coming to the game. But the concept and ideas look really solid after this video. I'm sold!

[@watermelon9235]

Cant wait for the skill guys really good work

[@LachlanYoung]

There's NO WAY they are actually releasing the meme skill 😳

[@slay-thoven1357]

The hype is unreal. I am so excited and hopeful this will be a Runescape Renaissance of sorts. The game is doing alright now. Sailing will usher in a new era, ideally!! I feel like a kid again!

[@ltipst2962]

All looks awesome to me. A very good amount of work already done. I'd recommend advertising this rather than hoping for the reddit community to share it.

[@OniCr0w]

I started playing OSRS again back when sailing failed the first time around. I'm so hyped for this.

[@Gutterball34]

This looks very exciting! I can’t wait for sailing!

[@WeekendWarriors72]

cant wait for this!

[@acealexander6852]

I love how the "smashing keyboard" was skill specs!

[@andrewmarr4387]

This looks brilliant. I am so hyped.

[@cheesedman01]

Looks amazing!

[@ShrimpPalooza]

I remember when this was just a rumor/meme for years. Now this is the first official mention of it, that I've caught wind of, and it has so many wonderful ideas and tons of content. Simply awesome!

[@Tyfont]

I can't wait for this

[@SirRounded]

Looking so forward to this! Currently burned out at ~2220 total, so hopefully I re-find my love and max before this comes out :D Keep it up team!

[@Sanguivore]

Okay, initially I was on the fence, but this all sounds incredible!!

[@AnthonyJames7]

Awesome video thanks!

[@rosanky5]

This is honestly really cool, I’m excited

[@RuijsNL]

Looks great!

[@Arrowstrike50]

Player pvp sounds so amazing I hope they are able to implement it on launch but if not I’m just as excited to get it later on instead!

[@constipatedparker5879]

Coming back to OSRS since over 15 years now, it's great to see many new updates that enhances gameplay now with technology has granted us to do it via mobile and pc such as runelite.

[@Korbitzer]

Sounds awesome!

[@christeferrussell3295]

I have been waiting nearly 15 years for sailing to come.

[@theyoutubeguy1]

This is crazy. It sounds like a whole new game.

[@jwalker2906]

Looks amazing!!!!!!

[@girthquake2390]

Can someone confirm if sailing is going ahead? I've seen so many people saying it's not confirmed yet, but these videos are so in depth as if it's been in development for a while?

[@RSSailing-ts2op]

Its certain to come if it passes the poll on Friday by hitting 70%.

[@YellowTissueBox]

i originally voted for shamanism, but i am totally on board for sailing! i said from the start i trust the team and i trust the community as a whole.

[@ghfghfghfghfghgfhgf7775]

what if sailing now pass and you change again your interest now we have no oldschool shit skill permanently in game because your windy mood

[@007kingifrit]

@@ghfghfghfghfghgfhgf7775 that's fine, more to do is better than less, i can do something else if sailing gets boring

[@YellowTissueBox]

lmao thats my bad homie@@ghfghfghfghfghgfhgf7775

[@aquadomain]

This looks cool I’m actually hyped now

[@alielhorr2]

Wow this exceeded expectations for me! Looks very promising

[@timothymoore2197]

I haven’t actually played OSRS in a few years, but I still keep up with popular players and updates, and this looks amazing. Might even start playing again just to check it out, I hope this skill passes from what I’ve seen so far

[@VxfreddyVx]

This is going to be a significant update to the game. It’s a whole new concept that I’m extremely excited for! Can’t wait!

[@ColonelloRS]

I'm ready to sail the high seas with the boys

[@GuitarheroWWEduh]

Can't wait for your Lvl 1 to 99 Sailing Guide to come out in the future too! Thanks for the guides! They are helpful af tbh with me lvling up efficiently af, fam! ♥

[@ColonelloRS]

@@GuitarheroWWEduh Glad you enjoy them, thank you!

[@Hollowtriangles]

This looks awesome

[@kylehatten6737]

This all looks so sick

[@ventem]

I haven't been super into RS and have played off and on since around 07 or 08 I think, but between this, the area expansion, and necromamcy in RS3, I've been playing A LOT of Runescape lately. Mostly RS3, but I think I'm going to be playing more and more Old School soon. Very excited for sailing.

[@Jam117_collectibles]

Wow this looks amazing! Voting yes!

[@rebeccastolberg2148]

Definitely combine it with underused game aspects, like hunting as you mentioned. Consider having under used quests also aid the skill. Like if you have a thunderbird, somehow connect it to eagles nest.

[@flatutlencetheunending]

cant wait to vote on this

[@mikedoan4247]

oh man this is exciting i hope it comes

[@zzwooly3331]

This new skill is gonna be sick!

[@nextProgram]

So excited for this. The OSRS team is doing a great job

[@TobiHReact]

The skill i never knew i needed!

[@cloud2o6]

I remember they always joked about adding sailing back in the day I’m just glad there actually putting it in the game 😂

[@calcium4222]

This looks sick

[@bndblazrt]

Hyped asl

[@piez122]

Looks amazing guys

[@Vi74LiTy]

This looks so fucking cool. Holy shit. Can't wait to meet Jack Sparr-hoe, the former farmer turned pirate.

[@wrytte]

what started as a meme over a decade ago has become one of the most anticipated updates in osrs. really excited for this! edit: i am also excited to see what the lore can bring!

[@carjockey2135]

im hyped for this new skill.

[@dojo45789]

This seems so incredible

[@christianmartinez6945]

Excited for new skill :)

[@rando5673]

Because this expands the way the entire game is played more than any skill before it, please allow f2p to have at least the lowest tier of access. It could draw a lot of new people to the game

[@onefan9195]

This looks dope i really hope it all passes

[@jacobpeterman1951]

coming back to osrs for this

[@XxskidudekidxX]

Damn this looks so sick

[@A1readyDead]

I can't believe it's actually finally happening, I feel like people have been talking about this forever but nobody really believed it would ever come

[@brewergamer]

It actually looks amazing.

[@latiaos11]

I am actually shocked they made GREAT content, like, fantastic. The way they blend it with other skills without creating an excessive amount of items, this looks amazing and I'm very very excited. I just hope tho they reuse already existing music in the game, or they get a composer that can truly mimick the Runescape feel to it, since it's been an issue for me bc I feel fair amount of tracks from the Great Kourend expansion truly fit the game. Anyways, fantasting job, super super SUPER excited

[@AmberCOOLKID]

Can’t wait

[@enoad9529]

Wanted this since fishing at Catherby in 05. All we had was the occasional random running from the dragons.

[@urartu_187]

Awesome

[@AndysHandle]

If this dosnt pass then it shows the rs community don’t deserve nice things

[@youtubeuser5910]

If this passes then it shows the rs community doesn’t deserve nice things.

[@pavilpowell4334]

i second this

[@Only-cody]

It passed

[@walesxscarlets]

We want RuneScape as it was before the evolution of combat!

[@mrbigghoss69]

cant wait

[@svmibeats2863]

Wow amazing

[@FearTheOldB]

Looks really really good. I hope there are a bunch of good xp active methods.

[@camjo6397]

How about they release it on Rs3 first and then they can decide whether to add it. I think Osrs should be preserved as much as possible and a new skill is a slippery slope

[@_Heatwave]

As long as you keep the old/vintage graphics im open for it!

[@dodballabab]

Are we going to be able to send out fleets of ships to do things like fishing and other resource gathering?

[@demoncushion9600]

I feel like i just have so much PTSD from RS3 ports, that even thinking ab sailing makes me sick. It looks interesting, and based on the community, its happening if i want it or not... but it just seems like Ports for OSRS to me.

[@MrGrstaka]

I've avoided following the blog updates because I was admittedly pessimistic about the skill, but this turned me around. Genuinely excited to see more.

[@ARandomGuyyy]

This was my wildest dream when I was 15.❤

[@robertwalker2691]

Looks great

[@kellx1387]

Cant wait for the new skill, hope they are no gamebreaking bugs when released tho :D

[@qpaulussen8803]

Those turtle people are in for quite a surprise when I pay them a visit 😂😂