Damaged Anvil is the third and final wear stage of an anvil in Minecraft, sitting one degrading use away from breaking entirely. Damaged Anvil forms when a normal Anvil and then a Chipped Anvil wear down through repeated use — every renaming, tool repair, or enchantment combine carries a 12% chance to degrade the anvil by one stage. Damaged Anvil cannot be crafted: only the normal Anvil is craftable from 3 Blocks of Iron and 4 Iron Ingots, so Damaged Anvil is obtained solely by wearing one down, from the Creative inventory, or with the command /give @s minecraft:damaged_anvil. The heavy cracks across Damaged Anvil are purely cosmetic and exist in both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition.

Damaged Anvil stays fully functional and renames items, repairs tools and armor, and combines enchantments with no penalty compared to a fresh Anvil. Mining Damaged Anvil with any pickaxe drops the block while keeping its cracked texture, so Damaged Anvil can be picked up and repositioned. Like every anvil, Damaged Anvil is gravity-affected and falls when unsupported, which makes Damaged Anvil usable in falling-anvil traps that crush mobs or players below. Builders who want a battle-worn smithy aesthetic often keep a Damaged Anvil on display, but remember that the next degrading use will destroy Damaged Anvil with a crack animation and breaking sound.