Old School RuneScape provides an updated deep-dive into its new Sailing skill, confirms alpha for 2025 [Video]

It’s been quite a while since Old School RuneScape talked about the development of its new Sailing skill, but that’s not because Jagex has been sitting idle; it was just collecting all of its progress in order to unload it all over two immense dev blogs and nearly two hours’ worth of video content.

The two dev blogs in question offer the usual highly granular look at where Sailing is now, covering things like how navigation works via sea charting and related rewards; the way players earn skill XP (by… uh… using a boat, among other things); the variety of tasks that can be found on islands, at ports and in the open water like daily quests, courier quests, bounty hunts, and shipwreck salvaging; and a rough idea of how combat works, which will begin with PvE but expand into PvP later.

As for when the skill will enter into wider testing, Jagex is still non-committal to a hard date, but …