Anvil
- Namespaced ID
- minecraft:anvil
- Numeric ID
- 435
- Edition
- Java
The anvil repairs, renames, and combines enchantments on items using experience levels. It is the most powerful gear-maintenance block but degrades with use and obeys diminishing repair limits.
How to make a Anvil
Full crafting guide for Anvil → Step-by-step layout and ingredient sources.
What a Anvil does
- •Repair items with matching materials or by combining two of the same item
- •Rename items and name tags (renaming a tag lets you name mobs)
- •Combine two enchanted items, or apply an enchanted book to gear
- •Falls as gravity-affected block and can damage entities below
How to use the Anvil
Right-click to open. Put the target item in the left slot and the sacrifice (material, matching item, or enchanted book) in the right; the result and XP cost appear before you confirm. Each operation has a chance to chip the anvil, and the 'Too Expensive!' cap (40 levels) limits how many times an item can be worked.
/setblock command
Replace ~ ~ ~ with absolute coordinates to place this block at a fixed location.
Command builder
Set the position and placement mode to generate a ready-to-paste /setblock command for Anvil.
Block properties
- Hardness
- 5
- Blast resistance
- 1200
- Material
- Mineable / Pickaxe
- Diggable
- Yes
- Transparent
- No
- Light emitted
- 0 / 15
- Light filtered
- 0 / 15
- Block state IDs
- 9916 – 9919
Block states
Anvil has 4 blockstates from 1 property. Set them with /setblock using [property=value], e.g. minecraft:…[facing=north]. The starred value is the default.
- facing
- north ★southwesteast
Mining time
Break time per pickaxe tier. Tools that can't harvest the block take 5× longer and won't drop the item.
| Pickaxe | Break time | Drops? |
|---|---|---|
 Wooden | 3.75s | ✓ |
 Stone | 1.88s | ✓ |
 Iron | 1.25s | ✓ |
 Golden | 0.63s | ✓ |
 Diamond | 0.94s | ✓ |
 Netherite | 0.83s | ✓ |
Drops
What Anvil drops when mined with the correct tool, from the game's loot tables. Fortune-tagged drops scale with the Fortune enchantment.
| Item | Amount | Drop rate |
|---|---|---|
| Anvil | 1 | Always |