Minecraft/Anvil

Anvil
Flammable	no
Falls	yes
Blast Resistance	30
Transparent	yes
Luminance	0
Stack	64
Drops	anvil
Drops when using silk touch	anvil

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Anvils are versatile and useful, with several uses to players with enough iron to make one.

Obtaining

Crafting recipe:

Iron Block	Iron Block	Iron Block
	Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot	Iron Ingot	Iron Ingot

This makes an anvil.

They also can be found in villages.

Use

They can do three main things:

1. Combine two items of the same type and material together to repair them.
2. Combined a damaged iktem with the mineral used to craft them to repair them. This repairs a quarter of the durability, so you could potentially use more materials than was used to craft it. Sometimes it may be better to just craft a new item, unless it is enchanted or only slightly damaged.
3. Combine two items together to combine its enchantments. This is the most expensive operation, costing the most experience points. Try swapping the two items to see which way is cheeper.

Each of the above costs experience points. On each use, the anvil is slowly damaged, eventually breaking.