2014 April Fools

On 1 April 2014, Jagex announced that the Sailing skill was released.

The newspost announced the release of the Sailing skill and that players were able to visit the "Islets of Langerhans" in the Eastern Lands by speaking to Captain Emmemji south of Draynor Village.

Quickly players found that they only ended up on one island and that players can only earn a maximum of 5,000 Sailing experience; attempting to earn more experience resulted in the skill resetting to level 1 with 0 experience, accompanied by the chatbox message: ### CRITICAL ERROR: %sailing_xp memory overflow, resetting to safe state. This meant players could not reach levels beyond level 20.

Players could begin gaining experience after speaking to Captain Emmemji, who explains who he is and how the skill works: Simply by using one of the boats. Players can only take three types of boats:

• The small boat at level 1, which grants 100 experience per use.
• The long boat at level 5, which grants 180 experience per use.
• The wide boat at level 12, which grants 240 experience per use.

There was a single island to travel to, which re-used part of the interior of the Water Altar. The following NPCs could be seen on the journey, but not interacted with:

• Wise Old Man
• Sandwich lady
• Troll
• Ak-Haranu
• Saba
• Lizard man
• Party Pete
• Zaros

• Sailing ships - level 1-45
• Sailing ships - level 53-99
• Ship captains
• Boat icon 1
• Boat icon 2
• Boat icon 3
• Boat icon 4
• Boat icon 5
• Boat icon 6
• Boat icon 7
• Boat icon 8
• Boat icon 9
• Boat icon 10

• The "Islets of Langerhans" are a reference to the region of the pancreas that contains its endocrine cells called the pancreatic islets, which was nicknamed the Islets of Langerhans after the person who discovered them, Paul Langerhans.
• The "Cape of Fire" which Captain Emmemji says he once sailed up the back of with a "stinky harbour" is a joke about sailing up someone's butt, as the fire cape is worn on one's back.
• The jingle that played after gaining a Sailing level was the same as the jingle when winning a dice gamble with Harold during Death Plateau.