Anvil

Obtaining and breaking Anvil

• Pickaxe is the recorded preferred tool for Anvil, and the registry marks a suitable tool as required for the intended drop.
• Its recorded hardness is 5. Compare this with the blast resistance value when deciding whether the concern is mining time or explosion survival.
• Craft or process Anvil using Crafting Table.

What to use Anvil for

1 current recipe relationship is recorded for Anvil. These links include recipes that produce the block and recipes that consume it as an ingredient.

• Anvil has 1 recorded output recipe; open the linked recipe to compare edition, station, layout and yield before crafting a batch.
• One full inventory stack holds 64 Anvil blocks; 27 full stacks fill a single chest or shulker-box-sized inventory with 1728 blocks.

• Anvil Recipe has 2 current variants.

Build and technical notes

• Anvil is a functional blocks block identified as minecraft:anvil. Its material, collision, light and recipe relationships below are the useful details for building, survival collection and commands.
• The recorded collision shape is “block”. Collision is a gameplay property, so do not infer it only from the block's visible model.
• Java data contains 4 block-state combinations for Anvil. Commands that need one exact orientation or state must specify properties separately from the base ID.
• Its recorded blast resistance is 1200; this is separate from hardness and should be used for explosion-risk comparisons.

Java and Bedrock differences

• Anvil exists in both tracked editions. Java uses minecraft:anvil; Bedrock uses minecraft:anvil.
• The available hardness, blast-resistance and preferred-tool records do not show a cross-edition conflict for this block.

Command and version data

/give @p minecraft:anvil 64

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