Anvil Insight

Anvil Insight places a small info button on the standard Anvil screen. Pressing it opens a panel that analyzes the current combination and shows the XP level cost along with the parts that make it up, including the cost of each enchantment, the penalties from prior work, the repair contribution of any materials, and the cost of incompatible enchantments. The Anvil keeps working the same way, and the mod does not swap the screen for a separate interface.

Minecraft normally keeps only the final number and gives little information once an operation reaches the cost limit. Anvil Insight reports how near a valid operation sits to that limit and names the inputs that pushed an operation over it. It also tracks the hidden prior-work count of each item, so two items that look alike can be shown to carry different costs. Exceptions such as Creative mode are left as the base game handles them.

Anvil Insight runs on the client alone, so players install it and servers do not need it. Files are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, with builds for 26.2 and 26.3, and the latest file is v1.1+mc26.3 for 26.3, dated 2026-09-29. The code is open source under the MIT License.