The latest update in New World – Update 1.04 has brought about a pesky bug that prevents crafting. When players attempt to craft anything in New World, they are met with the error message, “Crafting attempt failed.” The bug affects crafting new equipment as well as upgrading the existing ones. One of the situations, when the bug arises, is if you start crafting and the character turns immediately the crafting will fail with the error. Fortunately, there are some workarounds that can help you fix the New World ‘Crafting Attempt Failed’ error.
Fix New World Crafting Attempt Failed Error
As with most bugs, there are a number of solutions to fix the New World crafting bug. The first solution or workaround you can try when you encounter the New World crafting error is to go to your storage and change the inventory. When you come back the animation will work and you can craft or upgrade. The fix is not universal, so it may work for some users, but may fail for others. But, don’t worry, there are a bunch of other things you can try.
Another solution that is known to temporarily fix the bug and help you craft at least once is to exit the game to the desktop and log back in. After logging in attempt to craft and it should be successful.
A workaround shared on the New World forum by MaxLohMusic is “filter to tier 1 or something that lets it display no available options. Exit crafting station. Re-enter crafting station (make sure your character stays hunched over and working; if they turned away, it means it’s still bugged)”
It has also been noted that the bug mostly affects Jewelry such as amulets or rings. Players have more success crafting armor and other stuff. At the time of writing, the only effective solution is restarting the game, but it allows only one crafting attempt. The second attempt is usually bugged and the player has to reboot the system.
While the solutions mentioned above may help for a session, it isn’t practical to restart the game every time you want to craft. The permanent fix can only come from Amazon. Let’s hope it comes soon. If a new workaround emerged, we will update this post. If there is something that worked for you, share it with others in the comment section.
To this date this is still an issue with crafting amulets rings etc