Do you name the tool? I do. At the time of writing, I have a shovel named Doug, a pickaxe named Michael, an axe named Nancy, and a sword named Guvis Hopparson III. If you also want to name and repair at the same time, you need this week’s product-anvil.
Anvil has become part of the Minecraft in universe, a very scary update back to October 2012, in the side branch, flowerpots, pumpkin pie witches, carrots, carrots. Originally they were made of six iron blocks and one iron ingot, but they were awfully expensive, so we made them cheaper. Today, they are made of only three iron blocks and four ingots. You are welcome to use it.
The five things you can do with an anvil are basic. First, you can rename the projects, which initially cost only one level of XP, but over time they do become more expensive due to the “previous work fines” that apply to all anvil activities. The math is a bit complicated, but to put it simply, the more times you rework at one item, the higher the cost it will get. Therefore, it is best to rename them while repairing or enchanting them.
Second, you can repair parts (for example, firstly use one of the raw materials used to make the tool to repair), such as iron ingots for iron pickaxe. If you want to know, elytra are repaired with phantom film, turtle shells are repaired with shovel, and chain mail is repaired with iron ingots. Each item will be repaired with 25% durability.
Third, you can combine the two projects together. They must be identical (for example, you cannot combine a wooden pickaxe with an iron pickaxe). Combine two items to add their durability scores together (plus a little bit as a reward), and merge enchantments. Expert tip - Repairing through a combination of tools is usually cheaper than repairing a single item. For example, a diamond shovel requires four diamonds to be fully repaired - but it can be fully repaired by combining it with a fresh diamond shovel, which can be made with only one diamond.
Fourth, you can use enchanting books to enchant tools to add the enchantment of the book to the tools. Compared to combining two enchanting tools, this costs much less than XP, although it is still not cheap when using advanced enchanting.
Finally, and most importantly, you can place an anvil on people and things. When there are no obstacles under the anvil, the anvil will fall, just like sand and gravel, and damage the objects below it according to the distance of the fallen-up to 40 obstacles (20 heartbreaks). It will also crush everything underneath, so be careful what you put aside. Want to prevent yourself from falling over the anvil? The helmet can reduce the damage caused by 25%.
One more thing to note here - every time you use the anvil, it has a 12% chance of being damaged. The anvil can be destroyed 3 times before it is destroyed - you can see the damage caused to the anvil itself. On average, you will be able to use it about 25 times before the anvil is destroyed, but depending on how lucky you are, the use of anvil may be more or less. Unfortunately, the anvil cannot be repaired - what will you repair anyway?
Anvils have a longer lifespan than human-beings. Many tool-using animals, such as chimpanzees, and even some fish and birds, use hard surfaces as anvils to break nuts and shells.
Thus, the first anvils were made of stone, so did the bronzes with the development of metalworking, and later forged iron anvils - once invented, they were plated with steel. Today, the anvil is basically made of solid steel.
Over the centuries, the anvil has evolved its unique shape, starting as just a huge solid block, and then undergoing many different patterns depending on the task used. The “London pattern” is the most common today. It has a hole for tools at one end, a flat surface with a rounded edge on the top, a step, and then a corner for making curved parts.
