🐉 Zenkai

A vanilla-friendly Dragon Ball combat and progression overhaul for Minecraft.

Nothing happens until you choose it. Zenkai brings the Dragon Ball universe to Minecraft without replacing the core game. Your character stays completely vanilla (no stats, no Ki, no altered combat) until you decide to opt in and take your first steps of training. How far you go, and what you find along the way, is up to you.

🚧 WIP: Zenkai is in active development. Expect bugs, hidden mechanics and big changes. 📖 New player? The full in-game tutorial lives in the Advancements tab. Open it in-game and let it guide your first steps.

✨ Forge Your Own Path

• Awaken Your Potential: Pick your race, but your destiny isn't written. There is no linear road to power. Train hard and survive tough fights, and you will push past your limits, unlocking latent abilities and legendary states of power that are only whispered about in myths.
• Master the Flow of Ki: You won't level mountains on day one. Experiment with your energy to discover new techniques: waves, dashes and heavy blows. Grow your 6 core attributes through Shadow Training, Meditation and Target Practice, and seek out places with crushing gravity to take your training further.
• A Universe of Secrets: The Overworld is only the beginning. Hunt for the elusive Dragon Balls, or board a Space Pod and explore uncharted planets with their own environments and harsh challenges.
• Power You Can See: Every transformation changes your aura, your model and your presence. Each form has its own energy: needle flames, divine swaying tongues, silver Ultra Instinct outlines, dark writhing masses. Customize your eyes, brows, nose and mouth with a head editor that shows thumbnails on your own face.
• Five Races, Many Paths: Human, Saiyan, Namekian, Arcosian and Majin each grow in their own way: the Arcosian holds back its power to build Power Points, the Majin splits by alignment, and every race can chase the endgame: Ultra Instinct, Ultra Ego, Mystic and Beast.
• Hell Itself: Descend into HFIL, rebuilt around the Japanese Jigoku: Beppu pools and geysers, white terraces, sulfur fields, frozen blood lakes, oni cauldrons, Frieza's cocoon and the warped Janemba Rift. Ogres and angels roam it.

⚙️ Multiplayer & Modding

• Built-in Parties: Play with friends using native party invites, kicking and friendly-fire control.
• Powered by NeoForge & GeckoLib: Built for modern modding environments to deliver smooth, high-quality animations and stable performance.
• Highly Customizable: Build addons without writing Java. Races, forms, skills, stats and masters are fully data-driven and extendable through JSON datapacks, reloadable in-game.
• Mod Compatibility: Zenkai is developed to play nicely alongside other mods, and compatibility is an ongoing effort.

🗺️ Where Zenkai Is Heading

Zenkai is in active development, so features and systems may change as the mod evolves. There is no fixed schedule; these are the areas the mod keeps growing in:

• Models and visuals: dedicated 3D models for more transformations and races (Arcosian forms, Oozaru, Tori-Bot), proper hairstyles for Humans and Saiyans that react to transformations, and more customization options.
• Worlds and structures: a reworked Namek, village structures, more Overworld structures and more of the afterlife (HFIL, Otherworld), including Janemba as a boss in his tower.
• Combat and Ki: more techniques, transformations and combat mechanics, polish for animations and sounds, and fusion with players or entities.
• Wishes: Shenron is done; Porunga (Namek's dragon) is still to come.
• Story Mode: a story that follows the whole saga, from the original Dragon Ball through Dragon Ball Z and up to Dragon Ball Super, with a large cast of named characters, masters and rivals.
• NPCs and Masters: more masters and combat NPCs.
• Addons: better data-driven systems, more events and a more stable public API.

⚖️ Disclaimer & License

Zenkai is a non-commercial fan project and is not affiliated with Toei Animation, Bird Studio, Shueisha or any Dragon Ball rights holders. Designed to feel like Minecraft first, Dragon Ball second.

• Code: MPL-2.0
• Assets: All Rights Reserved
• Datapack JSON: MIT