Minecraft crafting guide

How to craft Anvil in Minecraft

To craft an anvil in Minecraft, place 3× Iron Block, 4× Iron Ingot in the exact pattern on a crafting table to craft 1 anvil

Anvil crafting recipe

Produces 1× Anvil.

Iron Block
Iron Block
Iron Block
Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot
minecraft:anvil
  • This is a shaped recipe, meaning the items must be placed in this specific arrangement on the grid.
  • Anvil requires a crafting table to craft.

About the Anvil

The Anvil is a work station for repairing and renaming your gear. Right-click it to open its interface, where you can spend experience levels to:

  • Repair tools and armour with their repair material, or by combining two damaged copies.
  • Rename any item.
  • Combine two enchanted items into one with stronger enchantments.

Anvils are affected by gravity and will fall if unsupported, hurting anything underneath. They also wear out with use, passing through chipped and damaged states before finally breaking.

How to get the Anvil

You can craft an Anvil from 3 blocks of iron across the top and 4 iron ingots arranged below them, making it fairly iron-heavy. You can also occasionally find one in an anvil room inside a woodland mansion.

Materials needed

Ingredient amounts for one craft, producing 1× Anvil.

Materials required for one craft
MaterialPer craftAccepted items
3Exact item
4Exact item

Quantity table

Crafts are rounded up when a recipe produces more than one item.

Ingredient quantities for common target amounts
WantedCraftsProducedIron BlockIron Ingot
11134
1616164864
32323296128
646464192256

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