Anvil

Anvil
Material	Metal
Stackable	No
Drops	Itself
Blocks

An anvil is a functional block used as a work surface for smithing items made of metal.

Creation

Anvils are created through either casting or smithing , depending on the metal's tier.

An anvil mold filled with molten copper.

Casting

See also: Casting

Anvils made of copper and bronze , which have a low melting point, are cast in an anvil mold .

1. Create an anvil mold through clay forming , and fire it in a pit kiln or beehive kiln .
2. Smelt 900 units of metal (equivalent to 9 ingots ) in a crucible using a high-temperature fuel .
3. Pour the molten metal into the anvil mold until it is full.
4. After it has cooled, break the anvil mold to retrieve the anvil.

Smithing

See also: Smithing

Anvils made of iron , meteoric iron , and steel , which have a high melting point, are created by welding two parts: the anvil base and anvil top. Smithing these parts is a lengthy process and can be performed on an anvil made of a metal that is 1 tier lower. For example, iron (a tier 4 metal) can be smithed on an anvil made of bronze (a tier 3 metal).

Altogether, creating an anvil using this method requires 10 ingots and 1 piece of powdered borax for flux.

Anvil base

1. Gather 5 ingots and heat them in a forge .
2. To begin smithing, add a maximum of 3 ingots to an anvil at once. The first ingot can optionally be replaced with a plate to complete the lowest layer faster.
3. Begin shaping the anvil base with a hammer .

An incomplete iron anvil base after adding 3 ingots. The top has been flattened and cleared near the center.

Note that work items have a maximum height of 6 voxels. Newly added ingots and plates are placed near the center, on top of the highest voxel below it. Therefore, if a work item's height is too high, adding another ingot may exclude the upper part of the ingot that cannot fit into the work item, resulting in wasted voxels. To prevent this, add ingots one at a time and ensure that the work item's height does not exceed 4 voxels in that area (i.e. there are 2 voxels of clearance) by distributing the recently added voxels first.

An ingot adds 42 voxels in a 7x2x3 shape. A plate adds 81 voxels in a 9x1x9 shape.

4. When ready, add the next ingot. Prioritize moving voxels to complete the lower layers first.

A finished anvil base has 192 voxels, meaning that there is a margin of error of 14 voxels (e.g. accidentally splitting voxels).

Anvil top

The process of smithing the anvil top is the same as the anvil base.

A finished anvil top has 210 voxels, meaning that there is no margin for error. Any wasted voxels will require a sixth ingot to finish the work item. Replacing the first ingot with a plate will also require a sixth ingot, because 1 plate has 1 fewer voxel than 2 ingots combined.

An iron anvil base with powdered borax applied.

Welding

1. Heat the anvil base and anvil top in a forge to 800°C or higher.
2. Place the anvil base on a solid surface.
3. Apply 1 piece of powdered borax by pressing Shift + .
4. Place the anvil top.
5. Hammer the two halves together by pressing 12 times, until they have been fused into an anvil.

Usage

In smithing , metals ingots are heated in a forge and then transferred to an anvil by pressing Shift + . When an ingot is placed on an anvil, a dialog box will open and allow the player to select the item to be crafted. Ingots can also be substituted with plates .

An anvil can be used to work the corresponding metal's tier and 1 tier higher, along with all of the tiers below. The only exception is meteoric iron , which requires an iron anvil to work rather than a bronze anvil. Untiered metals have various anvil tier requirements, as shown in the table below.

Note that the tier system for anvils begins with copper , unlike the tier system for tools and weapons , because anvils cannot be created in the Stone Age .

Anvil		Tier	Workable metals
	Copper	1	Copper, bronze, gold , silver , bismuth , lead , zinc , brass , molybdochalkos , electrum , cupronickel
	Tin bronze	2	Iron, nickel
	Bismuth bronze
	Black bronze
	Iron	3	Meteoric iron, blister steel , steel, tin
	Meteoric iron
	Steel	4

Note that the tier of the hammer or helve hammer used has no bearing on which metals can be smithed.

Recycling

An anvil can be combined with a chisel in the crafting grid to recover 8 ingots of the respective metal. This consumes an amount of chisel's durability equal to the durability of a new chisel of the same tier as the anvil.

For example, a copper anvil can be recycled into 8 copper ingots using a copper chisel with 600/600 durability, or an iron chisel with at least 600/2000 durability.

Chisel durability used when recycled

Anvil	Durability
Copper	600
Tin bronze	1000
Bismuth bronze	1200
Black bronze	1400
Iron	2000
Meteoric iron	2800
Steel	6000

Notes

• A falling anvil deals significant damage to players and creatures .

Video tutorials

Guide for the iron anvil smithing process

History

Version		Description
1.3.6		The smithing system was implemented.
1.4.6		The grid crafting recipe for an anvil using 7 metal ingots was removed. The anvil mold was added and uses an increased 900 metal units.
1.5.1.1		The black bronze anvil was added.
1.12.0		Anvils no longer reset the temperature of work items.
1.14.0	pre.1	The iron anvil was added. The welding system and anvil halves were implemented.
	rc.1	Anvils no longer pre-select the arrow recipe, and canceling the recipe selection will drop the original ingot. Metal plates can now be added to an anvil as material.
		Falling anvils have a 20x damage multiplier. A crafting grid recipe to recycle an anvil was added.
1.15.0	pre.1	The stack size for anvils was changed.
	rc.1	The recycling recipe now requires a chisel with sufficient durability.
1.19.0	rc.1	The chisel durability cost to recycle a steel anvil was increased to match steel chisel durability. The recycling recipe now works with all grid configurations.
1.20.0	pre.1	Anvils and anvil parts held by the player are now shown to be held in both hands.
1.21.0	pre.1	Anvil molds must now be broken to retrieve the anvil. The ability to mix iron and meteoric iron anvil halves was removed.
1.22.0	pre.1	Steel anvils can now be created in Survival.