Chipped Anvil is the second wear stage of the Anvil in Minecraft, sitting between a brand-new Anvil and a Damaged Anvil in the wear chain Anvil → Chipped Anvil → Damaged Anvil → destroyed. Chipped Anvil cannot be crafted directly: only the normal Anvil is crafted from 3 Blocks of Iron plus 4 Iron Ingots, and Chipped Anvil appears only after a fresh Anvil degrades. Every Anvil action — renaming an item, repairing a tool, or combining enchantments — carries a 12% chance to wear the Anvil down one stage, turning a normal Anvil into a Chipped Anvil. The light cracks across the Chipped Anvil texture are purely cosmetic and clearly distinguish it from the heavier damage of a Damaged Anvil.

Chipped Anvil stays fully functional, performing the exact same renaming, repairing, and enchantment-combining work as a new Anvil with no penalty. Chipped Anvil is mined with any pickaxe and drops itself, keeping its cracked texture so players can pick it up and reposition it. Like every Anvil, Chipped Anvil is gravity-affected and falls when unsupported, which makes it a reliable component in falling-anvil traps that crush mobs or players below. Chipped Anvil exists in both Minecraft Java Edition and Bedrock Edition, so an enchanting setup behaves identically across platforms once an Anvil reaches this stage.