How to Craft Anvil in Minecraft

The Anvil combines enchanted books with tools, renames items and repairs equipment. It degrades with use and eventually breaks.

Crafting Recipe

Crafting Table

Anvil

Item	Amount	Where to Find
Block of Iron	3	Craft from 9 iron ingots each
Iron Ingot	4	Smelt iron ore

Open your Crafting Table to access the 3x3 crafting grid.
Arrange the ingredients in the crafting grid following the pattern shown above.
Place Block of Iron in: row 1, column 1; row 1, column 2; row 1, column 3.
Place Iron Ingot in: row 2, column 2; row 3, column 1; row 3, column 2; row 3, column 3.
Collect your Anvil from the output slot.