How to Clone Enchanted Gear and Bypass the Anvil Level Limit

Creating backup sets of your best armor, tools, and weapons is straightforward when you clone them directly at an anvil, and high-tier combinations will no longer lock up behind vanilla experience caps.

Cloning Weapons, Tools, and Armor

1. Craft or obtain a plain, unenchanted version of the exact item you want to duplicate.

2. Make sure the plain target item is completely undamaged. If you are using salvaged gear, repair it to full durability first.

3. Open an anvil and place your original enchanted armor piece, weapon, or tool in the left slot.

4. Place the plain, undamaged counterpart in the right slot.

5. Spend the required experience levels to claim your cloned gear.

Removing the Too Expensive Block

In vanilla survival, combining heavily enchanted items eventually triggers a forty-level cap that displays "Too Expensive" and blocks the craft. This limit is removed automatically so any anvil combination stays available as long as you hold enough experience levels.

If you play on a customized setup where the forty-level cap is still blocking your combinations, open your config folder, locate the mod's configuration file, and verify that allowHighAnvilCost = true is set before restarting the game.