Naruto: Will of Fire
A Naruto adventure mod for Forge 1.20.1.
Become a shinobi. Choose your village, clan and chakra nature, weave hand seals, train five ninja stats, lead a squad and fight your way from Academy student to Kage through 13 story arcs, 10 boss fights and 8 invasions.
Forge 1.20.1 · requires Player Animator · free, fan-made and non-commercial.
Join the Discord: discord.gg/Mhm6anGXMb for news, help, bug reports and suggestions.
⚔ Combat that feels like the anime
- 150+ jutsu across the five natures, 16 clans, Sage Mode, the Rinnegan, tailed beasts and forbidden techniques.
- Hand seals: weave a jutsu's real seal sequence on the number pad and it goes off when you stop.
- Hold to charge: release a jutsu at up to double power.
- Movement: dash and backstep with i-frames, a chakra double jump, wall running and water walking.
- Defence: guard, or hit a perfect guard at the last moment to stagger your attacker.
- Combos: three-hit bare-handed chains that end in a heavy finisher.
- Modes: Sharingan → Mangekyo, Byakugan (see through walls), Rinnegan, Sage Mode, the Eight Inner Gates and the Tailed Beast Cloak, each with its own screen effect. Sage Mode, every Inner Gate and Baryon Mode are earned through trials - and Baryon Mode costs Kurama his life, so the game asks if you're sure.
- Battle Mode: put six jutsu in your loadout and cast them straight from the number keys, with cooldown sweeps beside your hotbar. Hold J for a jutsu wheel.
- Big effects: glowing chakra domes, Rasengan spheres, Chidori lightning, Kirin, Susanoo slashes, Tailed Beast Bombs, plus screen shake, impact frames and hit-stop.
👹 Bosses, beasts and invasions
- 10 boss fights with three phases and telegraphed moves (red circles on the ground: step out!). Itachi's Tsukuyomi, Zabuza's mist, Orochimaru's shed skins, Gaara's sand armor, Kakuzu's hearts, immortal Hidan, Pain's six paths, Obito's Kamui, Madara's meteors, and Kaguya dragging you through her dimensions.
- All ten tailed beasts as giant animated bosses with Tailed Beast Bombs, hand-shaped in a clean angled style. Beat one to become its jinchuriki.
- 8 invasions, started with a War Scroll: waves of enemies, then their leaders, from a rogue ninja ambush to the Fourth Great Ninja War and the Otsutsuki.
📜 Story Mode
- 13 arcs, 47 chapters, told in a dialogue box with character portraits: the Academy, the Land of Waves, the Chunin Exams, the Search for Tsunade, Sasuke Retrieval, the Kazekage Rescue, Pain's Assault, the Fourth Great Ninja War, Kaguya and the Next Generation.
- Allies join you for key fights, and sparring matches end when your opponent yields.
- Prefer to roam free? Sandbox worlds let every character and beast appear in the wild instead.
🏯 A ninja world
- 145 characters, each with their own skin, stats, jutsu and quotes. Talk to them to learn their jutsu (after a sparring test), recruit them into your squad, take their quests, or take missions from the Kage.
- Merchants in every great village: a weaponsmith, an apothecary, a scroll merchant with four named scrolls a day, and a ramen chef.
- All the hidden villages and landmarks: Konoha and Suna are built from jigsaw pieces, so no two look alike. You'll also find Kiri, Kumo, Iwa, Ame, the Valley of the End, the Great Naruto Bridge, the Forest of Death, Mount Myoboku, the God Tree and more.
- Detailed builds: furnished, lantern-lit rooms, shuttered windows, weathered stone, Naruto decoration blocks (paper lanterns, tatami, scroll racks, village crests) - and every copy of a structure looks a little different.
- Small finds everywhere: bandit camps, ninja outposts, border checkpoints, roadside ramen stands, hidden Uchiha hideouts, Akatsuki lookouts, and sealed scroll shrines with a seal-stone puzzle.
- Six dimensions: your own Kamui pocket dimension, Itachi's Tsukuyomi, and Kaguya's ice, lava, gravity and desert worlds.
- The Five Nations: Land of Fire forests with giant trees, the Land of Wind desert, Water marshes, Lightning peaks and Earth badlands (needs TerraBlender).
📈 Progression
- A Quest Book with trials, trainings, summoning contracts and 24 side quests: each shows its story and steps, and you claim the rewards (Ryō, XP, items, unlocks) in a panel on the right.
- Every jutsu is earned: beyond the Academy basics, each technique has its own training, a teacher's sparring test, or a scroll that starts its training. No random jutsu.
- The Eight Gates, one at a time: eight trials with Might Guy, from laps and a thousand punches to bringing down a tailed beast with seven gates open. Hard workers can't mold chakra - taijutsu only, but their fists hit harder.
- Summoning contracts: sign with the Toads, Snakes, Slugs, Monkeys or Hawks. Gamakichi answers a young summoner, Gamabunta a Jonin; then Aoda and Manda, Katsuyu, Enma, Garuda and the Sage Toads.
- Ranks from Academy Student → Genin → Chunin → Jonin → Kage, each with more chakra and health. Chunin needs the Chunin Exams.
- Five trainable stats (Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, Chakra Control, Stamina) that grow as you use them.
- Villages and reputation: shop discounts and Kage missions, or walk the missing-nin path until the Akatsuki come calling.
- Mission boards, Ryō, legendary weapons (Samehada, Kubikiribocho, the Gunbai…), ninja gear with set bonuses, a Military Ration Pouch (never hungry, but no endless healing) and 104 advancements.
🎮 New-player friendly
- An Academy lesson card teaches the basics one step at a time.
- The Shinobi Handbook is a full in-game guide that shows your key bindings.
- A clean, configurable HUD: scale, corner, offsets, optional damage numbers, and it stays out of the way of chat.
- Original sound effects and music.
Controls
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| K | Cast jutsu (hold to charge) |
| J | Switch jutsu (Shift: back) · hold for the jutsu wheel |
| H | Charge chakra |
| B | Dash / backstep |
| Y | Guard (tap just before a hit: perfect guard) |
| O | Toggle mode · Shift+O picks the mode |
| I | Battle Mode (keys 1–6 cast your loadout) |
| U | Ninja Menu (stats, loadout, squad, village) |
| ; | Quest Book (trials, quests, rewards) |
| Number pad | Hand seals |
| Space in mid-air | Chakra double jump |
Every key can be rebound under Controls › Naruto: Will of Fire.
Compatibility
- Required: Forge 47.x for Minecraft 1.20.1, and Player Animator.
- Optional: JEI (info pages for every ninja item), Jade (shinobi rank, bounty and what they can teach you), Curios (headbands in the head slot), TerraBlender (the Five Nations biomes).
- Plays alongside orca's Mine Piece: shared health and bounty conventions and no clashing keys.
- Works in singleplayer and on dedicated servers (install it on both).
- Languages: English, 日本語, Español and Português.
FAQ
Can I add it to an existing world? Yes. New structures generate in new chunks, and saves from older versions upgrade automatically.
Why does my world show an "experimental settings" warning? Forge shows it once for any world with mod dimensions. Choose to continue and it won't ask again.
Is it on Fabric / other versions? Not at the moment: Forge 1.20.1 only.
Can I use it in a modpack? Yes, as long as the pack is free.
Found a bug or have an idea? Post it in the Discord (#bug-reports or #suggestions).
Credits & disclaimer
Naruto: Will of Fire is an unofficial, free, non-commercial fan project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Masashi Kishimoto, Shueisha, Studio Pierrot or any rights holder. All textures, models, sounds and music in the mod are original and were made for it; no art or audio from the anime, manga or games is used. Player Animator by KosmX (MIT).