Anvil

Obtaining

An anvil is made for work that must keep an item's enchantments: it repairs matching gear, combines enchantments, and accepts a new name. Damaged anvils can also be found in the forge room of a woodland mansion and among trail-ruin finds.

Loot tableAnvilDetailed drops are not published yet.

Breaking

A pickaxe is the efficient tool and the anvil drops itself when the block survives the break. It has hardness 5 and blast resistance 1,200, so a misplaced anvil is much slower to remove by hand or with the wrong tool.

Data: Breaking

Hardness	◈5
Blast resistance	1200
Tool	PickaxeTool
Correct tool required	Yes
Efficient tool	Pickaxe
Block drop	1 anvil

• Iron PickaxeItem
• Block of IronBlock

Crafting

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Result

Anvil

Ingredients match the published snapshot.

Usage

The block occupies a standard full volume and is shown with an isometric preview.

Use the block to open the repair interface. Combining two matching items adds their remaining durability and can merge compatible enchantments; an enchanted book can transfer an enchantment to a target item. A material repair consumes the material associated with the item, while renaming costs experience and works for ordinary items as well.

• Enchanted BookItem
• Enchanting TableBlock
• Bottle o' EnchantingItem

Sounds

Opening the interface uses the repair interaction, while a falling anvil produces a distinct clang on impact. The sound family is shared by the normal, chipped, and damaged forms.

• Chipped AnvilBlock
• Damaged AnvilBlock

Behavior

An anvil is affected by gravity when it has no support. A falling anvil can damage an entity for 2 health per block after the first, up to 40 health, and landing or breaking produces a metallic impact. Repeated use can advance it from normal to chipped and then damaged; the damaged stages keep the same interface until the anvil finally breaks.

• Chipped AnvilBlock
• Damaged AnvilBlock

Data values

The block uses `minecraft:anvil`. Its state stores the horizontal facing direction; the chipped and damaged variants are separate block identifiers rather than a numeric state on the normal block.

Data: Data values

Identifier	minecraft:anvil
Version	Minecraft 26.2
Blockstate	assets/minecraft/blockstates/anvil.json
Loot table	AnvilLoot table
State field	Facing
Variants	minecraft:chipped_anvil, minecraft:damaged_anvil
Tool family	Pickaxe
Push reaction	Blocks piston movement
Sound	Anvil
Default facing	North
Pathfinding	Not pathfindable

• AnvilBlock
• Chipped AnvilBlock
• Damaged AnvilBlock

History

1. 26.2Block facts were published from the verified snapshot.Provenance: 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5

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See also

• Block catalogue
• Chipped AnvilBlock
• Damaged AnvilBlock
• Smithing TableBlock
• Recipe
• Block of IronBlock
• Iron IngotItem
• Enchanted BookItem
• Enchanting TableBlock

References

These references identify the local Java implementation, block registrations, and deterministic recipe used for the page.

• AnvilBlock
• Chipped AnvilBlock
• Damaged AnvilBlock
• Iron IngotItem

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