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If you haven’t already, try typing "Sailing" into your Settings search bar! You’ll uncover a range of useful options covering Gameplay, Interfaces, and Warnings - all designed to make your voyages that little bit more customisable.

• You can choose to toggle if the boat stops when you leave the helm
• Decide if the heading of a boat that is stopped should start the boat moving - always, never, or just the first time.
• Toggle hint arrows for the Current Duck and Barracuda trials

• Show the Sailing Side Panel always, or only when aboard your ship.
• Choose whether to see a pop-up notification when you chart something new.
• Toggle if charting hints are shown in the Captain's log.
• Enable chat box messages listing materials when viewing boat customisation requirements.
• Decide if you’d like a warning before dropping items on your boat.

Get a warning before you:

• Drink from a Forgotten Crate at sea
• Cancel a Port Task
• Deposit cargo at the wrong port
• Leave your ship while cargo is still onboard (a lifesaver for forgetful sailors!)
• Open a cargo hold on someone else’s boat where items can’t be retrieved

Port Tasks will be the first thing that you're likely to do when training Sailing after completing the Pandemonium quest. Deliver cargo from A to B, easy peasy. And, what's even better, is that from Level 7 you can grab yourself two at once! Use this to grab multiple tasks towards the same destination, or stop off at a mid-point and grab an extra task on your way to keep that XP steadily increasing.

While this is a good method, exploring the seas will give you major benefits to your Sailing endeavours alongside experience. Not only do you get a nice chunk of bonus XP from fully charting an area, but you'll also unlock rapids within that area to make you faster. With over 50 Charting points for you to find in the early game areas, or locations to view at Level 1, there's plenty of options for you to explore! Make sure to upgrade your ship where you can so that you can make use of these rapids and maximise your speed at sea - we'd recommend upgrading to an Iron Helm to make use of the rapids that you unlock, and upgrading your sails & hull as you progress to keep your ship speed increasing!

It's a good thing to keep in mind that whenever you're travelling the sea, whether it be finding salvage, or just charting, it's wise to have a port task (or two) active so you always have some Sailing experience you can cash in while working towards more unlocks.

Keep an eye out for chance encounters too! Saving a castaway, catching a gust of wind allowing you to trim your sails multiple times, the ocean man who takes you by the hand and leads you to the land, and many more! They give you either XP or loot for each time you complete them!

You can also gain extra Charting Tools from some early quests including Crowbars from 'Prying Times' at Level 15, and the Current Duck from 'Current Affairs' at Level 22, which will give you more options for charting on top of the Sailing XP that they award on completion.

Finally, it's always worth moving to newly unlocked Notice Boards when you unlock their associated docks, as these will give you higher level tasks that grant more Sailing experience. Remember that you can just teleport there and recover your boat (assuming you've got nothing in your Cargo Hold that you're not willing to lose), or you could sail there yourself and tick off some extra charting tasks along the way!

Ultimately this is just a rough example of how you can tackle the seas, as the beauty of Sailing, much like Old School, is that you can choose how you play! We hope that you continue to play in a way that you enjoy the most!

Bounty Task Drops can no longer be earned from engaging in combat with sea creatures on land. This change has been made because some players were able to gain Sailing XP from Bounty Tasks faster by using a Dwarf Multicannon on islands rather than a Cannon on their boat. Whilst we love players discovering new and exciting training methods, we don't feel that it's appropriate to award Sailing XP for gameplay loops that don't actually involve any Sailing, instead circumventing it with teleports and multicannons, unlike some charting tasks which at least require you to use Sailing tools or navigate to the locations by boat.

Other fixes today:

• We've identified an issue with two Charting tasks where players couldn't reach the co-ordinate easily. These are 'Help the meteorologist document the local weather on a small island east of the Kharazi Jungle' and 'Help the meteorologist document the local weather on the southern coast of Neitiznot'. Both task locations have been moved to somewhere more accessible.
• 'Quick Deposit' now respects the new Cannonball limit we set on Cargo Holds (2,000).
• Players who had tried to use the new Sailing Ores with the Blast Furnace found themselves unable to use it. We've added an 'Empty' option to restore access back, and in a future update we will make a change to ensure that players don't soft lock themselves out of the Blast Furnace.

We're committed to reviewing your feedback over the coming days and weeks ahead. As the release settles, we'll share more information about our plans to address core feedback on Sailing, how progression feels and our longer term plans to improve it even further. We appreciate all of the feedback we've received so far and we hope you're having fun sailing the seas of Gielinor!

The requirement to unlock drink crates was accidentally lower than originally intended. They were mistakenly being unlocked based on the number of charts done, rather than the intended number of seas completed.

The corrected requirements are:

• Kraken Ink Stout - 5 seas in the Ardent Ocean and 5 seas in the Unquiet Ocean.
• Perildance Bitter - 8 seas in the Western Ocean and 5 seas in the Shrouded Ocean.
• Trawler's Trust - 50 seas across all oceans
• Horizon's Lure - 70 seas across all oceans

Whilst resolving this issue, we also noted that the XP buff from Horizon's Lure was not providing additional XP for Barracuda Trials or Port Task completions as intended. We are currently investigating this and will update you when we have more to share.

We understand this news will undoubtedly be upsetting to hear for those of you who unlocked these rewards early, and we've also seen comments regarding the reward space from Charting being underwhelming outside of these. So, in addition to the changes listed above, we're also open to buffing the effect of the Whirlpool surprise drink.

Currently, Whirlpool Surprise provides you with an invisible +2 Sailing boost and a buff to your crew's Deckhandiness and Helmsmanship. Because we recognise that no player likes a nerf to XP rates, we're considering offering an additional bonus that would provide you with 1.5% additional Sailing XP. Please note, we wouldn't be able to provide Sailing XP for this change retroactively, and the 1.5% XP bonus would not apply to Port Task completions, nor to Barracuda Trials until we have resolved the issue described with Horizon's Lure above.

Players who obtained drink crate rewards prior will no longer benefit from their effects without the correct requirements, even when stored in their Keg. Additionally, Whirlpool Surprise & Horizon's Lure XP boost effect don't stack together.

Let us know how you feel about these changes.

The Dwarf Multicannon has also been re-enabled to work against sea creatures! Both the Dwarf Multicannon, Poison Damage and Burn Damage now scale appropriately in line with damage reductions that regular combat has against sea creatures.

Ahoy, Sailors. As we mentioned in our previous update, we buffed Sea Charting XP last night which should help to make your early Sailing grind a little faster. As a result of this change, we're retroactively granting players back the difference in XP gained via a coldfix later today. This will also include rectifying an issue for players who did not receive the full XP for Charting until a hotfix this morning.

Game worlds will be taken offline for at least 40 minutes at ~14:15 UTC today. Any accounts impacted by 100 Sailing XP or more will benefit from this change.

The reason for the cut-off point in XP is because downtime required will be longer when more accounts are impacted. The downtime has been considered and we felt that XP below 100 is negligible since players would likely prefer game worlds to be brought back online as quickly as possible.

Currently, the ability to board other boats is linked to your status (whether your Private Chat is set to 'Friends', 'All' or 'Off'). This meant that players were able to board other boats and - depending on their settings - have access to the items within the Cargo Hold of the ship. Whilst we appreciate the thematics of piracy, it's not immediately obvious to players that these settings control access to your boat similar to a Player-Owned House. To resolve this issue in the short term, we're locking the Cargo Hold entirely to only be accessible to the Captain for now (preventing any form of multiplayer interaction on it).

Next week, we'll add a setting to allow you to open it up again for other players on your boat, which will by default be OFF. If you want to avoid unwanted players getting on your boat, continue to use the 'friends' or 'private' status which will prevent them from joining. We'll explore how we can adjust settings for the Cargo Hold so that you can more choices with how you want to share items, e.g friends-only, clan-only, etc. in the longer term.

We're removing some of the words used in the pool used in boat naming to avoid some unfortunate combinations. Some players may find that their boat name has changed as a result.

If you're not fond of destroying your ship to obtain a new one, then you'll undoubtedly stumble across an NPC during your Sailing journey who will rename your ship for you. You unlock this ability around lvl 60 Sailing.

The following sea drinks teleported you away from your boat (which was intentional) but, as a result, the game unintentionally wiped items stored in the Cargo Hold for a brief period of time.

• Slug Balm
• Way Home
• Elven Wine
• Fishier Stout
• Exile's Welcome
• Winter Sun
• Martini
• Portal Perry
• Sea Shandy

We've successfully fixed the bug, however we're aware that some players lost items. Alongside this post, we've deployed a fix to restore the following items to those impacted:

• Cannonballs
• Deep Sea Trawling Fish (including Offcuts)
• Repair Kits

Currently, the Cargo Hold wipes items upon capsizing or teleporting. This was an intentional design choice as content is balanced around players Sailing to and from various locations. However, we appreciate that it can feel punishing and frustrating to lose items, especially if you have many stored within your Cargo Hold. Today, we're releasing a hotfix to limit the amount of Cannonballs that you can store to 2,000 (of each type). Next week, the team will discuss further changes as we explore alternative solutions.

• Fixed an issue where wealth restriction caused Group Ironmen to not be able to withdraw port task cargo.

We'll seek to resolve some of the ways that boats are getting stuck, especially around Ports, via an engine fix. For other areas, we will need to look at them on a case-by-case basis. We're making a space within the OSRS Discord to report these areas, so it would be great if you could send us any reports if you find them and we'll investigate as soon as we can.

The 'Check Materials' prompt at the Shipyard is turned OFF by default. In next week's update, it will be ON by default. Make sure to check the 'Sailing' settings in your Settings Menu!

You can see a full list of Sailing Settings in our section below!

• We're investigating how we can make it clearer for players to get back to the Pandemonium if they teleport away during the quest.
• We're also exploring feedback from the UIM community about restrictions in the Cargo Hold.
• We're fixing an issue with the Collection Log button for the Shellbane Gryphon opening up Scurrius's tab.
• Fixing various typos we spotted.
• Adding the Sailing Skilling Event option into the Clans tab. Oops!
• Sharks don't have bones, but in Gielinor they do! Some sea creatures are dropping bones when they shouldn't be. This will be fixed next week. Enjoy those bones while you can!
• We'll fix an issue where using Repair Kits in the Shipyard doesn't visually update your boat's HP in the Sailing menu.
• Completing Pandemonium will be made a requirement before you can use a Spyglass.
• The Sea Charting interface level requirement filter will take into account quest requirements for Charting activities."
• A very clever player has figured out that there is a Sailing Mermaid task which should accept 'Rune Med Helm' as an answer instead of just 'Iron Med Helm'. This will be fixed next week!
• The Construction Skilling outfit will also work on Shipwrights' Workbench next week.

Update (18:30 UTC) - Retroactive Sailing XP has been succcessfully added back to all acccounts. Access to Tombs of Amascut and Theatre of Blood is now restored.

Update (17:50 UTC) - Some players may not yet have all XP returned. As we process these, if you are impacted, you will be force logged out of the game. If in combat, logout will occur after leaving combat. We advise avoiding dangerous activities during this time. Access to Tombs of Amascut and Theatre of Blood is temporarily disabled for safety.

Our estimations for downtime needed to return all lost XP were incorrect.

Rather than keeping the game offline for all players for even longer, we will be shortly bringing worlds back online. Some players will find they have not yet had all of their XP returned. We will instead process these returns while the game is live, and each player impacted will be force logged out of the game. If a player is in combat, you will be able to continue playing, but will be instantly logged out once you leave combat.

We heavily advise that players do not engage in dangerous activities during this time. We are prioritising HCIM accounts first, and will inform you when we're finished with our work.

As a temporary safety measure, we have disabled access to Tombs of Amascut and Theatre of Blood.

What a day! Thank you so much to everyone who has logged in and played Sailing.

Over 181,179 of you have trained the skill so far, with a total of 1.06b Sailing XP gained. Over 972 Soups have been earned alone. It's been truly wonderful watching so many of you discover and explore Gielinor's ocean.... And there's more to come! We’ve also seen your feedback, heard your praise, and recognised your frustrations.

Sailing is a vast and expansive skill, with content spread across all levels. Throughout your levelling journey, you’ll unlock various upgrades along the way that help you level up even faster – whether it be a new tool or an entirely different way to train. As you progress, you’ll notice that your experience rates increase too! We highly encourage players to be diverse in the way they’re training, rather than sticking to one thing if you want to maximise your potential, since these milestone unlocks sometimes lead to significant 'breakpoints' in the XP/hr available to you. This means that even if you're running Port Tasks, unlocking a new tier of shipwreck to salvage or a new set of things to chart might lead to better experience gains.

We’ve taken time to check the data available to us and compared that to what we’d expected players to achieve during the 1-30 grind. While the top percentile of players are close to our predictions, it’s clear that most are not sharing the same experience. When combining this data alongside your feedback, we felt some changes were needed.

In this section we’d like to talk about the early grind, specifically between levels 1-30, and what we’re doing to help improve that.

• Increased the base XP from each Charting point discovered. We’ll also be retroactively granting the difference in XP gained for those who have already discovered said Charting point, which will come tomorrow via a coldfix so we have time to make sure no single point of XP is missed!
• Generic charting point XP increased from 15 XP to 35 XP.
• Spyglass charting point XP increased from 15 XP to 50 XP.
• Drink Crate charting point XP increased from 20 XP to 75 XP.
• Current Duck charting point XP increased from 30 XP to 125 XP.
• Mermaid Dive point charting XP increased from 60 XP to 175 XP.
• Weather troll point charting XP increased from 120 XP to 250 XP.
• Increased the XP gained when fully Charting a section of sea. We’ll also be retroactively granting the difference in XP gained for those who have already discovered said Charting point, which will come tomorrow via a coldfix so we have time to make sure no single point of XP is missed! Note: the interface will still show the old XP values until this coldfix is out.
• Level 5 Seas increased from 100 XP to 190 XP.
• Level 12 Seas increased from 200 XP to 270 XP.
• Level 22 Seas increased from 470 XP to 510 XP.
• Level 24 Seas increased from 570 XP to 590 XP.
• Increased the XP gained from completing Port Tasks from levels 1-30 by 20%
• It is not possible for us to retroactively grant the difference in XP that would have been gained here.
• Increased the XP gained from Shipwreck salvage from levels 1-30 by 20%
• It is not possible for us to retroactively grant the difference in XP that would have been gained here.
• Increased the time all Shipwreck salvage lasts by an additional minute.
• Note: the timer for Shipwreck salvage de-spawning starts the moment a player begins to salvage.

These changes won’t suddenly make you flash through the early levels and find yourself halfway to maxing, but we hope they help make it feel a little better than it currently does and make exploring the seas feel even more rewarding!

We're halving the amount of Construction XP given from all Sailing workbenches. Unintentionally, Sailing introduced an AFK-style Construction method with XP rates that are much higher than we had intended for the effort required. There's an established Construction XP value for each plank that we tried to stay true to. However, we failed to consider just how AFK this method would be, and whether we should stray from the established XP value. We considered other options, such as increasing the animation time it takes to create items, but this would have had unintended negative effects on important Sailing items like Boat Repair Kits. Adjusting the Construction XP from Planks feels like the right way to go to resolve this issue, but we'll of course keep an eye on your feedback.