Your village’s next line of defense could be you—even when you’re offline.
Patrol Duty lets you volunteer an AI-controlled copy of your character to protect your home village. Your copy roams the village, pursues hostile intruders, and fights on your behalf while you continue your adventures.
Sign up and defend your home
Players ranked Chunin or higher can enroll through Town Hall → Patrol Duty while awake and inside their home village. You remain enrolled until you stand down or lose eligibility.
Each hour, a new patrol roster is selected from eligible volunteers. The Village Protectors structure provides two slots per level, up to 20 active defenders. Volunteers who aren’t selected remain in reserve for a later rotation.
Your character, on patrol
Your copy uses your character’s combat build and applicable equipment and jutsu, entering each encounter with full health, chakra, and stamina. It fights automatically, and your own health and inventory remain untouched.
Keep playing, travel elsewhere, or log off—your enrollment continues.
Sneak past—or face the defenders
Hostile visitors can be pursued and intercepted, facing one protector at a time.
Active, unexpired Stealth lets intruders evade roaming patrols. This protection applies directly, without a detection roll. However, attacking players or the village shrine can still force a stealthed intruder to confront an available protector.
A defeated copy stays down village-wide for the rest of the hourly shift, allowing attackers to wear down the village’s defenses before the next rotation.
Earn credit for protecting your village
When your copy defeats an enemy player, you earn PvP wins, PvP points, and weekly PvP kill credit. Invaders can also earn PvP rewards for defeating protector copies.
The Patrol Duty panel shows who is patrolling, who is defending, which copies have fallen, and when the next rotation begins.
