To be clear, you only need 7 wooden slabs in total, no matter what wood type of the slabs is. For example, you can use 2 oak slabs, 2 spruce slabs, and 3 birch slabs and it still works for this recipe ...

Anvils are massive slabs of metal so it makes sense that it will take a ton of iron to make one. The only two ingredients here are iron blocks and ingots, so get digging for that iron. Once you have ...