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I had an odd thing happen tonight. I was collecting experience at my mob farm in order to combine a regular bow with my enchanted bow to repair it.
I put the enchanted bow (half durability left) in the first anvil slot and a regular new bow in the second slot. It cost 5 experience levels to combine them. When I left clicked the resulting combined bow, the anvil construction screen disappeared, the bow dropped off my mouse cursor and dropped to the floor, and the entire anvil disappeared!?
I've combined tons of enchanted items before without problems. Can anyone think of something I may have done wrong? I don't want to start loosing 31 iron (anvil construction cost) every time I lose an anvil.
Anvils have a durability. The more you use them, the less durability they have. There isn't a set amount of uses, like there is with a tool, it works much more similarly to the unbreaking enchantment, where you have a chance to damage the anvil a little bit when you use it.
Anvils have a durability. The more you use them, the less durability they have. There isn't a set amount of uses, like there is with a tool, it works much more similarly to the unbreaking enchantment, where you have a chance to damage the anvil a little bit when you use it.
Although the average use of an anvil seems to be 24 uses (according to the wiki)
Anvils may seem expensive but when you consider the iron used by repairing enchanted diamond equipment compared to using iron tools you use far less iron; when used to repair a diamond tool with Unbreaking III you get over 4,800 uses per iron ingot (on average each anvil use is 31 / 24 = 1.29 iron) - by comparison, even an iron shovel only gets 251 uses per iron ingot; an iron pickaxe, only 83.67 uses - that's 20-60 times less iron! An iron chestplate only gives you about 30 hits per iron ingot; a diamond chestplate with Unbreaking III gives you around 590 (though you can save 50% on iron by repairing with four ingots instead of new chestplates). Similarly, a bow with Unbreaking III gets about 1,200 uses per iron ingot - still less than even an Unbreaking III iron shovel (about 1,000 uses per iron ingot; a pickaxe only gets about 333 uses; all the costs for iron equipment here do not include anvil costs, for example, the shovel gets only about 440 uses per iron ingot when factoring this in).
Overall, anvils are very much worth it, especially in versions prior to 1.8 since you can rename items and repair them hundreds, thousands, infinity times, but they are still useful in 1.8. It is also easy to get iron; I could tell you all you need to know about how easy iron is to get.
I had an odd thing happen tonight. I was collecting experience at my mob farm in order to combine a regular bow with my enchanted bow to repair it.
I put the enchanted bow (half durability left) in the first anvil slot and a regular new bow in the second slot. It cost 5 experience levels to combine them. When I left clicked the resulting combined bow, the anvil construction screen disappeared, the bow dropped off my mouse cursor and dropped to the floor, and the entire anvil disappeared!?
I've combined tons of enchanted items before without problems. Can anyone think of something I may have done wrong? I don't want to start loosing 31 iron (anvil construction cost) every time I lose an anvil.
Anvils do eventually break - they start to get cracks in them and then shatter after a while.
Anvils have a durability. The more you use them, the less durability they have. There isn't a set amount of uses, like there is with a tool, it works much more similarly to the unbreaking enchantment, where you have a chance to damage the anvil a little bit when you use it.
Farewell everyone o/
Although the average use of an anvil seems to be 24 uses (according to the wiki)
Oh, thanks for the info. I didn't even consider that an anvil had a limit to its uses. <=24 seems pretty low for a solid iron construction...:)
Yeah it does. Usually in real life they last for years-decades. Its just you might have got a bit unlucky.
- C.C.
Anvils may seem expensive but when you consider the iron used by repairing enchanted diamond equipment compared to using iron tools you use far less iron; when used to repair a diamond tool with Unbreaking III you get over 4,800 uses per iron ingot (on average each anvil use is 31 / 24 = 1.29 iron) - by comparison, even an iron shovel only gets 251 uses per iron ingot; an iron pickaxe, only 83.67 uses - that's 20-60 times less iron! An iron chestplate only gives you about 30 hits per iron ingot; a diamond chestplate with Unbreaking III gives you around 590 (though you can save 50% on iron by repairing with four ingots instead of new chestplates). Similarly, a bow with Unbreaking III gets about 1,200 uses per iron ingot - still less than even an Unbreaking III iron shovel (about 1,000 uses per iron ingot; a pickaxe only gets about 333 uses; all the costs for iron equipment here do not include anvil costs, for example, the shovel gets only about 440 uses per iron ingot when factoring this in).
Overall, anvils are very much worth it, especially in versions prior to 1.8 since you can rename items and repair them hundreds, thousands, infinity times, but they are still useful in 1.8. It is also easy to get iron; I could tell you all you need to know about how easy iron is to get.
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