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Getting startedWhat to install, what changes when you start a colony, and where to find everything.Questions and answers NEWShort answers to the questions players ask most, with links to the full guide.Becoming a ninja: chakra, the academy and elements NEWHow a pawn gets chakra, how children and adults awaken it, and how a ninja gets an element and passes it on.Ninja buildsHow the build decides what a ninja can learn, after NFRP's Specialist rules.Ninja ranks and the rank examEvery ninja can climb four ranks: genin, chūnin, jōnin and village leader.Windows at a glanceEvery NFRP World window has a clickable mockup on the guide that explains it.Recommended modsWhat NFRP World needs, and the optional mods it works with.Mounts and flyingNFRP World's creatures are ridden through Giddy-Up, which is recommended.Reporting bugs NEWHow to send a bug report with your log, so it can be found and fixed.Coming nextNothing new is announced right now.
Your ninja
What a ninja can become.
Clans and bloodlinesClans come from genes, and the only way to take another clan's power is surgery.Rare arts and legendary blades NEWThe most famous techniques and swords can't be bought, crafted or inherited: they have to be found.Signature techniquesYour ninja can create techniques of their own: pick an element, a shape, a few modifiers and a look, give it…More arts from the archiveThe rest of the archive's styles and technique trees.Genjutsu schoolsSix schools of illusion from the archive, all in the Genjutsu tab.Beast arts and skill techniquesThe hive mind, scent and web trees only show for pawns with that clan's gene.The Eight Celestial GatesA taijutsu style from the NFRP archive's "Eight Celestial Gates" thread: the user forces open the gates of…Hand signsNinja form hand signs during the wind-up of their techniques, and the best of them learn to do it with one…Chakra paperA slip of chakra paper shows which element a ninja's chakra leans to.Kazeraikou, the storm clanThe clan of storms and dragons, created by Marii from NFRP and used with her permission.Ninja names and backstoriesNinja and villagers in NFRP World get Japanese-style names and ninja-world backstories instead of RimWorld's…
Fighting
How fights work, and how to win them.
Break and combosSteady pressure breaks a fighter.Jutsu chains and solo combosTrained ninja can fire several techniques on one order, and finish elemental combos on their own.Elemental combosTwo ninja hitting the same spot with different elements mix them into a combo.Stances and squadsDrafted ninja can be given a combat stance, a whole squad can focus one enemy, groups can march in formation…Ninja tool kitKunai, shuriken, senbon, paper bombs, smoke, nets and pills are a ninja's everyday tools.Shinobi weaponsTwenty-four classic weapons for your ninja: short and long blades, chain and rope weapons, polearms, parrying…Summons, contracts and companionsGolems, fabled animals, a bone steed and animals sealed into scrolls.Contract bondsTwo colonists bound soul to soul, with techniques that only work between them.New creatures and the undeadSixteen new beasts and fifteen undead, from the archive's bestiary.Visual effectsHow techniques look in NFRP World: crisp painted shapes, constructs, mouth casting, taijutsu moves and the…
The world
Villages, missions and the people in them.
Factions and missionsWho's out there, the war, the truce and ranked missions.The world: creatures, plants, ruins and eventsThe wilds of the NFRP world: archive beasts, herbs, chakra metal and gems, sealed ruins to explore, and the…Diplomacy and scroll trading NEWCall a hidden village on the comms console (or the field radio, which needs no power: research Ninja gadgets…The living worldThe ninja world keeps moving when you aren't looking.Live squad missionsSquad missions (see *The living world*) can now be watched as they happen, and what your ninja can actually…Fame, the Bingo Book and rivalsNinja build a reputation from what they do.Reputation, duels and intelMore on fame, the Bingo Book and rivals: who hears about your deeds, masked names, infamy, your village's…StorytellersNFRP World adds three storytellers who know about ninja: missions, ranks, rivals, the Bingo Book, the truce…
Village and crafting
Building your hidden village.
Alchemy and craftingThe alchemy table, disciplines, the scribe desk and the crafting arts.Enchantment sealsPressing power into weapons and armour.GearOver two hundred pieces of equipment from the archive's item catalogs, painted in a Japanese feudal style.Professions, ANBU and gearVenator, Bard, Soulcaster, Monster Trainer, Sensor and ANBU.Ninja researchThe stronger tools of NFRP World are researched: 19 projects in four tiers on World of Naruto's ninja…RitualsRitualists write ritual seals at the scribe desk.IdeologyWith the Ideology DLC, NFRP World adds five ninja memes, eight ninja issues with their precepts, three roles…Stronghold roomsFurniture and fittings from the archive's stronghold rooms, painted in the same Japanese style.