No Too Expensive Anvil

Vanilla anvils refuse a combination once its cost reaches the Too Expensive threshold. This mod lifts that hard limit: costs above 40 levels follow a gentler XP curve, and the displayed cost matches what the player actually pays. Costs below 40 levels stay exactly as vanilla sets them. Prior work penalties still accumulate in the usual way, and repair, renaming, material consumption and anvil damage behave as before.

The change stays narrow, affecting only the final level cost of an anvil result and the client label that shows it. Enchantment compatibility rules are kept unless another mod changes them, and server authority stays intact in multiplayer. Friends can join a LAN or dedicated server without installing the mod on their clients, though players who install the matching jar get the correct reduced cost on the anvil screen instead of stale high-cost text.

The mod is published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 16 release versions, 1.21 – 26.2, and runs on client and server, so the server and every player need the same matching loader jar. It is released under the MIT License and is not open source.