There is no need to craft steel anvils at this time as there are no Tier 6 metals in the game.Īn anvil cannot be smelted to recover the material used in creating the item, however since version 1.14, the player can use a chisel and anvil of the same metal type in the crafting grid to recover 8 ingots worth of metal. Copper and Bronze items can be worked on any anvil, but iron items can only be worked on a bronze or iron anvil and steel items can only be worked on an iron anvil. When a heated ingot is placed on the anvil, a dialog box opens to allow the player to select the item to be crafted. The anvil is the work surface used for smithing metal tools from ingots heated in a forge. Hammer until both parts are welded together, this should take about 12 hits. Take one portion of powdered borax and apply with a Shift+right click on the placed base, then add the top part. Once heated, first place the base part down on the ground. The anvil top needs a total of 210 voxels, divided into five layers:Īfter both the base and top are finished, heat both of them up in a forge. Just do a right mouse click with the hammer in hand and the item you are working on will rotate. Protip: You do not need to leave space around the anvil to go behind to work on the back part of the item. However, keep in mind that this is the best way to save iron ingots, not the best way to save coal. The ingot will however rise with the rest, meaning it will be added on top of the current surface.Īn optimum way of smithing can be seen below, with the focus on keeping the 'ingot landing space' as empty and flat as possible. Keep in mind that a new ingot added will only fill in the empty voxels in that specific space, so it is recommended to keep the ingot place as flat as possible. The space on which the next ingot will be added is always the same, and the player can make sure that this space is flat and below the maximum height limit of the recipe, which is 6 voxels, or 3 ingots stacked. To lessen the chance of wasting voxels - and thus ingots - it is necessary to add one ingot, flatten it out and only then add the next - and so forth. This process might be easier when starting with one iron plate as the base, and then adding 3 more ingots, one at a time. Note that for the base, a total of 5 ingots need to be added, and there is at maximum 14 voxels worth room for error. Select the anvil base and start hammering. Start the crafting process by placing a heated iron ingot on the anvil - bronze or higher anvil tier is needed. Protip: The recipe has an upper height limit of voxels, which means adding too many ingots too fast without first distributing previously placed voxels might effectively delete voxels altogether! Make sure to add the next ingot only after distributing the voxels from the last one. One ingot amounts to 42 voxels added, and the anvil base and top need 196 and 210 voxels respectively. To make a complete iron anvil, a total of 10 iron ingots are needed, 5 each for the anvil base and anvil top, as well as one powdered borax. Then, the two parts need to be welded together with powdered borax. The player first has to make the upper and lower part of the anvil separately, smithing them with a hammer on a bronze anvil. An iron anvil base with applied borax waiting for the top part.Īnvils made out of iron or meteoric iron can not be cast like copper and bronze anvils since iron and meteoric iron cannot be melted in a crucible.

Anvil recipe