Advanced Anvil
Every Minecraft veteran knows the pain: you have a god-tier sword, a stack of enchanted books, and then the anvil slaps you with the dreaded "Too Expensive!" message. Vanilla caps anvil work at level 40, which means your endgame gear eventually becomes impossible to upgrade. Advanced Anvil is a datapack that tears down that wall entirely, letting you forge, combine, and repair items no matter how high the XP cost climbs.
What Makes Advanced Anvil Different
This isn't a mod that rewrites anvil mechanics from scratch. Advanced Anvil for Minecraft keeps vanilla-balanced prior work penalties intact while simply removing the hard level 40 ceiling. Costs of 50, 68, or even 100+ levels now work seamlessly. You still pay the XP, but the game no longer refuses the operation.
Key Features at a Glance
- No "Too Expensive!" limit — forge and repair items even when the cost exceeds level 40.
- Mainhand and offhand UI — hold your target item in your main hand and the sacrificial item, enchanted book, or repair material in your offhand.
- Interactive preview dialog — right-click the anvil to see the exact result and XP cost before committing. Click [Forge] to confirm.
- Smart material repairs — restores 25% max durability per ingot or gem and consumes only the exact amount needed.
- Full enchantment compatibility — supports all vanilla enchantments plus AppleTomaTo's Custom Enchants, with 194 additional enchantments available.
- Strict conflict checks — Sharpness versus Smite and similar conflicts are still enforced, and level caps remain respected.
- Custom 3D model and textures — dark forged iron with elegant amethyst accents that fit right into a vanilla world.
- Retains anvil physics — gravity, falling damage, and wear degradation (Chipped and Damaged states) all still apply.
Supported Versions and Loader
Advanced Anvil targets Minecraft Java Edition 26.3 and is built as a pure server-side datapack. That means no Forge or Fabric installation is required, and no server plugins are needed either. It runs on vanilla servers and singleplayer worlds alike, which makes it one of the easiest endgame upgrades you can add to an existing world. If you play on a server, the datapack lives in the world folder, while the resource pack is enabled on each client.
If you would rather skip manual folder juggling, the foxygame.net launcher offers a one-click install path that drops Advanced Anvil straight into the correct datapacks and resourcepacks directories for your selected version, so you can get back to forging instead of troubleshooting file paths.
Crafting the Advanced Anvil
You craft the Advanced Anvil in a standard 3×3 crafting table. The recipe uses amethyst shards in all four corners, iron blocks on the four edges, and a regular anvil in the center. It's a mid-game investment, but the payoff is enormous once you start pushing gear past level 40.
How to Use It
- Place your Advanced Anvil down.
- Hold your base item in your main hand.
- Hold the book, duplicate item, or repair material in your offhand.
- Right-click the anvil to inspect the preview and XP level cost.
- Click [Forge] in the dialog to complete the operation.
To move the anvil, hold any pickaxe and sneak plus left-click. It keeps its wear state when broken and placed again, so you never lose progress on a damaged anvil.
How to Install Advanced Anvil
Singleplayer
Extract the bundle ZIP first. Move the core datapack into your world's datapacks folder, then move the resource pack into your resourcepacks folder. Enable the resource pack under Options, Resource Packs, then join your world and run /reload if you were already inside it.
Multiplayer and Servers
Place the datapack inside the server's world/datapacks folder and restart or reload. Players should download and enable the resource pack on their clients, or you can configure it as the server resource pack so everyone sees the custom model automatically.
When you download Advanced Anvil, you get a bundle containing both the datapack and the resource pack. Extract both before installing, since the datapack handles crafting, XP costs, and forging logic, while the resource pack provides the 3D model, textures, and clean UI text.
Final Thoughts
Advanced Anvil solves one of the most frustrating bottlenecks in late-game Minecraft without breaking the balance that makes anvils interesting. You still pay XP, you still respect prior work penalties, and you still deal with enchantment conflicts, but the arbitrary level 40 ceiling is gone. If you have ever stared at a maxed-out sword and a "Too Expensive!" message, this datapack is exactly what your world needs.