Enhanced Anvils
by Mrbysco
Enhanced Anvils extends the vanilla anvil screen with extra buttons that insert color, font, formatting and lore codes into the item name field.
What it does
Enhanced Anvils changes the anvil screen so that extra buttons sit beside the rename box. Players can drop a formatting code into the anvil's edit box at the cursor by clicking the matching button, which spares them from typing color or style codes manually. The buttons cover the 16 colors Minecraft supports, six formatting codes for obfuscated, bold, strikethrough, underlined and italic text, a reset for formatting, four custom fonts from the Java Edition font set, and three lore buttons that turn the current text into lore lines.
The mod requires Fabric API on Fabric. Item Model Browser is an optional dependency. Every player and the server need a copy of the mod. Enhanced Anvils is open source under the MIT License and is published for Fabric and NeoForge. Its files cover 1.21.1, 1.21.8, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3, with 0.7.1 for 26.3 as the latest file on both loaders.
Key features
Color buttons
Sixteen colored buttons insert the color codes that Minecraft supports into the item name.
Formatting buttons
Six buttons add obfuscated, bold, strikethrough, underlined and italic codes, and a reset clears formatting.
Custom font buttons
Four buttons apply the fonts of the Java Edition font set to an item name.
Lore buttons
Three buttons turn the current text into lore lines, in three different styles.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Optional 1
Use cases
Naming items on a server
Players who name gear on a shared server can style names with colors and fonts without learning the formatting codes.
Writing item lore
Lore lines can be set from the anvil screen, so a crafted item can carry a description written in place.
Who it’s for: Players who rename items often and server owners who want styled item names on their world.
How it compares
Menderman is open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 and is published for Fabric and NeoForge across 1.21 – 26.3, running on client and server. Colorful Anvils Unoffical Port is a Fabric-only port for 1.21.8 – 26.3 under the MIT License, and it is not open source. Deshefrator is Fabric-only, for 1.21.3, and runs on the client alone.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enhanced Anvils | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-29 |
| Menderman | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-24 |
| Colorful Anvils Unoffical Port | Fabric | 1.21.8 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-07 |
| Deshefrator | Fabric | 1.21.3 | Client-side only | 2025-10-28 |
Questions
Does Enhanced Anvils need Fabric API?
Does the server need Enhanced Anvils?
Which loaders and versions are covered?
In the catalog
Enhanced Anvils is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 19,630 Game mechanics mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Enhanced Anvils changes the vanilla anvil screen to add extra buttons. Each of the buttons inserts the formatting code at the current cursor position in the edit box. (or at the start if using the font or lore buttons)
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/enhanced-anvils
- Owner
- Mrbysco
- Published
- 2025-09-12
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-29
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15