How to make 👾 Anime in Infinite Craft

How to make 👾 Anime — step by step

The cheapest known path. Craft each step in order — every ingredient is either a basic element or something you make earlier in this list.

1. Water + Water = LakeBoth Water and Water come straight from your starting elements — craft Lake first, everything else in this chain depends on it.
2. Fire + Fire = VolcanoVolcano is a stepping stone — keep it in your inventory, later steps build directly on it.
3. Lake + Volcano = IslandIf you already made Island in an earlier session you can skip this one and move on.
4. Lake + Water = OceanOne quick craft for Ocean: drag Lake onto Water and keep the result for the chain.
5. Ocean + Water = FishFish is only needed as an ingredient — make it once, don't farm extra copies.
6. Fire + Fish = SushiSushi is a stepping stone — keep it in your inventory, later steps build directly on it.
7. Island + Sushi = JapanIf you already made Japan in an earlier session you can skip this one and move on.
8. Fire + Water = SteamOne quick craft for Steam: drag Fire onto Water and keep the result for the chain.
9. Japan + Steam = AnimeFinal craft: combine Japan and Steam to make Anime. That's the whole path — 9 crafts total.

✓ Last verified October 2026 · 9 total crafts

Why this is the cheapest path to Anime

We rank every known recipe for Anime by total crafts from the four starting elements, not just by the final combination. The two direct ingredients — Japan and Steam — cost 9 and 2 crafts to build from scratch, which is why the whole chain above needs only 9 crafts. The alternatives in the table below are ranked the same way: their "approx. cost" is the pricier ingredient plus one, so you can see at a glance which route actually saves you crafts — and which ones quietly waste five.

Alternative combinations for Anime

Any valid combo works — pick the ingredients you already have.

What can you make with Anime?

Anime is a busy ingredient. In the community dataset it shows up in dozens of downstream recipes: pair it with Planet and you get Earth; pair it with Cinder and you get Fire; pair it with Vacuum and you get Dust; pair it with Eruption and you get Volcano; pair it with Soil and you get Mud; pair it with Dune and you get Sand. Crafted items are never consumed, so one copy keeps working.

Tips for crafting Anime

• Craft in one sitting. The 9-craft chain for Anime takes under two minutes once you know the route — the list above is already in dependency order, so just go top to bottom.
• Reuse your inventory. If you've played before you probably own the early intermediates (like Volcano) already — skip straight to the first step you can't do.
• Missing an ingredient? Check the alternatives table — e.g. Asia + Drawing also produces Anime if that route fits your inventory better.

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