Make An Anvil In Minecraft. To make an anvil, place 3 blocks of iron and 4 iron ingots in the 3×3 grid as demonstrated below. Eventually, you need to smelt 31 iron ingots:

The first thing you need to do to make an anvil is to open the crating menu where you will get a crafting grid of 3×3. You can use a crafting table to create most anything, but there's another type of crafting tool for specific items. A total amount of 31 iron ingots are required to craft an anvil.