Anvil

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An anvil is a gravity-affected utility block used to rename items, combine enchantments and repair items without losing the enchantments. An anvil has limited durability, and as it is used or dropped too far, gradually becomes a chipped anvil, then a damaged anvil, then breaks and disappears, without dropping anything in return.

The suitable tool to break an anvil is a pickaxe. Anvil needs to be broken using a pickaxe, otherwise the breaking time will increase and the block drops nothing.

Anvil drops itself when it's destroyed.

A damaged anvil generates in the "Forge room" of the woodland mansion and in trail ruins.

A total of 31 iron ingots (including 27 for three blocks of iron) are required to craft an anvil.

Anvils have two modes to repair items that have a durability rating:

• As with the grindstone, a player may repair items by combining two similar items. With the anvil, however, the target retains its enchantments and may gain new ones from the sacrificed items.
• Alternatively, a player can use materials originally required in the crafting of the item (iron ingots for iron items with durability, diamonds for diamond items with durability) to repair a single item. One material can repair 25% of the target's maximum durability. This is a good deal in the case of a chestplate, for example; a full repair (four materials) would total only half of the item's original cost (eight materials). In the case of tools and weapons, however, this may be a significantly less economical option; combining two diamond shovels would cost two diamonds in total, while up to four diamonds could be required to directly repair one. Still, it may be worth making the more expensive upgrade if the enchantments are considered difficult to obtain.

If the items are unable to be combined, a red "X" appears over the arrow pointing to the slot of the resulting item. Also, if the target item is at full durability and the sacrifice does not have any enchantments, the anvil also refuses to combine the items, unless if renaming the item to a valid name.

In addition, the player can rename any item – not just items with durability – by using an anvil.

Repairing with materials works for the most part, but not with all items: in general, repairing works for items with their material in the default name. For example, an anvil can repair an iron pickaxe with materials (iron in this case) while an anvil cannot repair bows or shears except with other bows or shears. Special cases: chain armor can be repaired with iron ingots, turtle shells can be repaired with turtle scutes, maces can be repaired with breeze rods, and elytra can be repaired with phantom membranes. The repair does not need to be complete; one material repairs ¹⁄₄ of the item's maximum durability. Repair of an unenchanted item can cost more material than simply crafting a new item or combining damaged items. The exception is armor, which consumes less material at the cost of experience levels.

Repairing with a matching item works for any item with durability including bows, shears and so on. The items must be a matching tool and of a matching material. For example, a golden pickaxe cannot combine with a golden sword or iron pickaxe.

In both cases, the resulting durability is limited to the item's maximum, and there is no discount for "over-repair".

As a subset of repairing one item with another, the anvil can transfer enchantments from the sacrifice to the target. This can have a synergistic effect when both items share identical enchantments, or simply add to each other when they do not. Two Sharpness II swords can be combined to make a Sharpness III sword, for example, or a pickaxe with Efficiency can be combined with one that has Unbreaking. This can produce enchantments and combinations that are not possible with an enchanting table. But even so, some enchantments cannot be combined if they are similar, or contradicting, in terms of what they do. If the target is damaged, the player has to pay for the repair as well as the transfer.

Transferring high-level enchantments is more expensive, and renaming an item has an additional surcharge. The anvil has a limit of 39 levels; beyond that, repairs are refused. This limit is not present in Creative mode.

Every time armor or tools are repaired, the minimum experience cost doubles (e.g., 1 level, 2 levels, 4 levels, 8 levels, etc.).

Any item or stack of items can be renamed at a cost of one level plus any prior-work penalty. If the player is only renaming, the maximum total cost is 39 levels. The maximum length for renaming is 30 characters‌^{[BE only]} or 50 characters‌^{[JE only]}. Renamed items are italicized by default, but formatting codes beginning with § are available in Bedrock Edition.

Some items have special effects when renamed:

• A name tag must be renamed before it can be used.
• Renaming a bucket of fish, axolotl, or tadpole renames the mob inside as well, meaning a fish, axolotl or tadpole can be named without a name tag.‌^{[Java Edition only][1]}
• A renamed item (can be any item, doesn't need to be a weapon) that kills another player or tamed mob causes the name to appear in the death message.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• A renamed spawn egg produces a mob with the same name.
• Chests, trapped chests, shulker boxes, furnaces, hoppers, droppers, dispensers, minecarts with chests, minecarts with hoppers, enchanting tables, barrels, smokers, blast furnaces and brewing stands display the name in their GUI when placed.
• Renamed command blocks use their name in chat messages instead of [@]‌^{[Java Edition only]} or [!]‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}.

Any name changes to items are applied to the item stack component {components:{"minecraft:custom_name":"<name>"}}.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

If the item name field is left blank, or is only whitespace or non-breaking spaces (or a combination of both), the default name for that item is used instead. Also, if the item name is unchanged from its current name (which can occur when renaming an item for the first time and using any of the aforementioned blank parameters), a red "X" appears on top of the arrow in the GUI.

Named items do not stack with unnamed or differently-named items of the same type.

Enchanted books can be used to enchant tools, armor and weapons. Enchanted books themselves can be combined to create higher-tiered books. This makes an anvil an alternative to the enchanting table.

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When there is no supporting block below an anvil, the anvil falls in the same way sand, gravel, concrete powder, and dragon eggs fall. A placed anvil cannot be pushed or pulled by pistons,‌^{[Java Edition only]} but a falling anvil can be pushed (though cannot be pulled), as it is an entity. This is different in Bedrock Edition where anvils can be pushed and pulled by pistons. Anvils make a metallic clang sound when they land.

A falling anvil damages any player or mob that it falls on, with a mechanism distinct from suffocation damage caused by other falling blocks such as sand when landing. The damage amount depends on fall distance: 2HP👁 ❤️
per block fallen after the first (e.g., an anvil that falls 4 blocks deals 6HP👁 ❤️
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damage). The damage is capped at 40HP👁 ❤️
× 20, no matter how far the anvil falls. Helmets take twice as much durability damage as other armor pieces and provide a 25% damage reduction to falling anvils.^[2] When a player dies by an anvil falling on them, the death message "<player> was squashed by a falling anvil" appears. However, if a player is merely touched by a falling anvil entity, no damage is dealt unless the falling anvil becomes an anvil block in the same block where the player is located.

If an anvil falls onto a block with a solid top surface, but the same block it is in cannot be replaced (torch, slab, etc.), it breaks and drops as an item.

Like other falling block entities, an anvil drops as an item after falling for more than 600 ticks (30 seconds).

An anvil can be used instead of a crafting table to zoom a map out, to clone a map, or to place a player position marker on a map.

With each use, an anvil has a 12% chance to become damaged – degrading one stage at a time, first becoming chipped, then damaged, then eventually destroyed. On average, an anvil survives for 25 uses, although it can also break much earlier or later (the standard deviation is approximately 13.5 anvil uses).

An anvil can also be damaged and destroyed from falling. If it falls from a height greater than one block, the chance of degrading by one stage is 5% × the number of blocks fallen.

The damage state does not affect the anvil's function, but only anvils of the same damage state can stack in inventory.

When an anvil is destroyed, the player automatically leaves the anvil GUI and it disappears.

In creative mode, the anvil functions a little differently than other game modes:

• Any repair/enchant/rename operation may be done, regardless of the player's experience level. In Java Edition, incompatible enchantments are allowed as well.
  • The experience cost is not taken from the player.
• The repair cost of tools does still increase.
  • It continues doubling with each repair, past the usual limit of 39 levels.
  • When it reaches the capacity of signed 32-bit integers, no repair cost is shown and the "product" item cannot be taken out of the anvil. Tools in this state also cannot be renamed or enchanted.
• Anvils are not damaged on use.

Despite being composed entirely of iron, anvils do not use iron sounds.^[3]

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Issues relating to "Anvil" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• If placed on top of exploding TNT blocks, the explosion does not affect the surrounding area. This is because the anvil falls into the space the TNT entity is occupying, and since the TNT's explosion power is not high enough to destroy the anvil, no blocks are destroyed.
• Before they were added to Minecraft, anvils were already present in Minicraft.
• Within the files of Minecraft Dungeons (Game\UI\Materials\Merchant\slot), a render of an anvil made for this wiki can be found.

• 👁 Anvil
  
  Anvil
• 👁 Chipped Anvil
  
  Chipped Anvil
• 👁 Damaged Anvil
  
  Damaged Anvil

• 👁 Anvil
  
  Anvil
• 👁 Chipped Anvil
  
  Chipped Anvil
• 👁 Damaged Anvil
  
  Damaged Anvil
• 👁 Deprecated Anvil
  
  Deprecated Anvil

• 👁 The old anvil GUI in Pocket Edition (now Bedrock Edition)
  
  The old anvil GUI in Pocket Edition (now Bedrock Edition)
• 👁 Top down view of the three stages of anvils. From left to right: anvil, chipped anvil, damaged anvil
  
  Top down view of the three stages of anvils. From left to right: anvil, chipped anvil, damaged anvil
• 👁 3D view of the three stages of anvils. From left to right: anvil, chipped anvil, damaged anvil
  
  3D view of the three stages of anvils. From left to right: anvil, chipped anvil, damaged anvil
• 👁 Golden boots being repaired
  
  An example of the Anvil's repairing mechanic
• 👁 An iron spear being named "Spontoon" and being enchanted with Mending
  
  An example of an item being enchanted & renamed using an Anvil

• 👁 Merging pickaxe with Efficiency IV.
  
  Merging pickaxe with Efficiency IV.
• 👁 With Fortune I and Unbreaking II.
  
  With Fortune I and Unbreaking II.
• 👁 The result is a pickaxe with Efficiency IV, Fortune I, and Unbreaking II for 33 levels.
  
  The result is a pickaxe with Efficiency IV, Fortune I, and Unbreaking II for 33 levels.
• 👁 Merging resulting pickaxe.
  
  Merging resulting pickaxe.
• 👁 With Efficiency IV and Unbreaking III.
  
  With Efficiency IV and Unbreaking III.
• 👁 The result is a pickaxe with Efficiency V, Fortune I, and Unbreaking III for 46 levels.
  
  The result is a pickaxe with Efficiency V, Fortune I, and Unbreaking III for 46 levels.
• 👁 The first screenshot of the anvil itself.
  
  The first screenshot of the anvil itself.

• 👁 A anvil in promotional artwork for the Pretty Scary Update.
  
  A anvil in promotional artwork for the Pretty Scary Update.
• 👁 Zuri sleeping next to an anvil.
  
  Zuri sleeping next to an anvil.
• 👁 An anvil as seen in A Minecraft Movie.
  
  An anvil as seen in A Minecraft Movie.

• 👁 Image
  Deprecated Anvil

• Taking Inventory: Anvil – Minecraft.net on November 26, 2020