How to Make a Custom Moveset in Jujutsu Shenanigans

The quick answer

Custom movesets are part of Free Build, so they only work in a private server. Press M to turn on Build Mode, place a Moveset, Awakening, Special or Character Block, then pick Custom from its ability list.

That opens the Skill Builder. You get 24 nodes to build with, 9 conditions to limit when the move can be used, and 13 properties to fine tune it.

What you need before you start

There are three things you need, and the last one catches people out.

The three tabs

Everything in the Skill Builder sits under three tabs. Knowing which tab does what saves a lot of hunting.

A move runs on a clock. The timeline only counts nodes under the 150 second limit, which is two and a half minutes and far more than any normal attack needs.

All 24 timeline nodes

These are grouped by what they do. The settings number is how many separate options that node gives you, which is a fair guide to how fiddly it is.

Action nodes (3)

Damage nodes (4)

Movement nodes (3)

Logic nodes (6)

Looks nodes (3)

Resource nodes (4)

Timing nodes (1)

How the Skill Builder grew

The Skill Builder arrived in V1.57 and got a big rebuild in V1.60, which is when specials were added. It has kept growing since.

Only 9 of the nodes were there at the start. The other 15 were added later, which is most of the toolset.

V1.71 was the biggest single drop, adding five nodes at once. A guide written before that update is missing 9 of the 24 nodes you have now.

All 9 conditions

Conditions decide when a move is allowed to run at all. Each one is a switch with a true and a false setting, and flipping it reverses the check.

Conditions work on branches as well as on the whole move. That is how one custom move can do different things in the air and on the ground.

All 13 properties

Properties change how the finished move behaves. Most are simple switches.

Making a Black Flash fire by itself

Some skills have hidden variants. If you give them the right amount of time, they turn into a stronger version on their own. A Black Flash is the one everybody wants.

The trick is a Wait node. Place the skill, then place a Wait node after it, and set the time to land inside the window below.

If you want the timing for a Black Flash in normal play rather than a built move, that is a different skill entirely. Our how to Black Flash guide covers the manual version.

Other variant timings

Black Flash is not the only variant you can set off with a Wait node. These are the rest, and a few of them behave in stages.

Revolve, Reversal Red and Rapid Punches are worth a mention. They do not just switch on or off. The wait time you pick decides how much of the move plays, so small changes give quite different results.

Tips that save you time

Use the default branch as a hub

Branches act like separate timelines inside one move. Keep the default branch as a simple starting point, then send the move off to other branches. That is much easier to fix later than one long timeline.

Grabbed targets cannot be hurt normally

When you grab someone they stop taking damage. To get round it, use an Add Health node with a negative amount. You can also finish with a Branch that checks their health and lands a Hitbox.

Start a blockable move with a check

If your move opens with an attack that cannot be blocked, add a Hitbox and a Hit Cancel node. If the hit lands, the move carries on. If it was blocked, the move stops instead of leaving you standing there.

Counters need a Wait after them

A Counter node switches off the moment the move ends. Put a Wait node after it so the counter stance actually stays up long enough to catch something.