New World is one of the most popular adventure survival games of recent times. From the beginning of its release, New World has shown a lot of bugs and errors that make players’ gaming experience worse. Recently, another error popped up that says, “Gem is not compatible with that item.” This error bothers the players who are trying to upgrade their weapons. In New World, the gem compatibility is not explained correctly; therefore, whenever players craft a gem to upgrade one of their specific weapons, they get this notification, but there’s no reason mentioned there.
They become confused and don’t get the reason why this message shows up. In this article, we are going to discuss the ‘Gem is not compatible with the item’ error in New World.
Fix New World ‘Gem is not compatible with that item’ Error
Unfortunately, there is no fix to this error because it is the design issue of the game. The game is designed in a way so that players can’t add a gem that gives elemental damage to a weapon that already has the perk to provide elemental damage. In simple words, you can’t add Gem with Nature, Hearth, Fire, or other elemental harm sorts to a weapon that already has an in-built Chain Lightning. The game will allow you to attach a gem of the same elemental damage type or the one with non-elemental damage to a weapon that already has the in-built Chain Lightning ability.
Therefore, it is a basic error that can’t be fixed. If you don’t want to get bothered again and again by this error message that says “Gem is not compatible with that item” error, keep in mind that you can’t equip a weapon with chain damage power like Chain Lightning, Ice, or Fire to a Gem that has different damage type. You can only equip the gem with the weapon if they both are of similar damage type. Keep it in mind before you craft a gem next time to avoid this error. This is probably the only possible solution to the error until now.
If you are also facing the problem and don’t understand, what you did wrong, go through the guide to know the reason and the solution of the error ‘Gem is not compatible with that item’.
