Currently, when taking durability into account, the anvils that are available once you get into metals is Lead at 80, Bronze at 100, Symorite at 200, Ironwood at 750, and then steel at 1000. I suggest putting in an iron anvil that is a GT6 anvil with durability at 500, since if you don’t have the Inbetweenlands mod or the Twilight forest mod, you can disregard the Symorite and the Ironwood anvils and the durability jump is from Bronze at 100 to Steel at 1000, which at low levels seems to be kind of an absurd jump and barrier.
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