How to Fix Crafting Queue and Timed Crafting Bugs

Crafting queue bugs are timer and ingredient tracking issues. Here is how to fix them.

How to fix it

1. Reserve ingredients on queue

When a craft is queued, reserve or consume its ingredients so they cannot be used elsewhere. Leaving them available until completion lets players queue crafts they no longer have materials for, breaking the queue.

2. Use reliable timers and offline time

Track each craft's completion time by a real timestamp and compute progress from elapsed time, including time the game was closed, so timed crafts complete correctly rather than only advancing while playing.

3. Grant results atomically

On completion, grant the result and finalize the consumed ingredients as one operation, then advance the queue. A non-atomic completion can drop the result or fail to advance, losing the craft.

Catching the ones you can't reproduce

The hardest version of this to fix is the one you can't reproduce — it only happens on a player's hardware, OS, driver, or save state, under conditions that simply aren't present on your machine. A report that says “it crashed” or “it froze” gives you nothing to act on, so the bug survives release after release while quietly costing you players.

Automatic error capture closes that gap. Each failure arrives with its full stack trace, the device and OS, the build number, and a breadcrumb trail of what the player did right before it broke, so even a failure you have never seen becomes a specific, reproducible issue. Fold identical failures into one signature ranked by how many players each hits, and your worklist sorts itself worst-first instead of arriving as a stream of vague complaints.

This is where a tool like Bugnet earns its place. Its SDK captures every error automatically with the full stack trace plus device, OS, memory, build, and game-state context, folds duplicates into one grouped issue with an occurrence count, and ties each to the build it first appeared on — so you fix the problem that hurts the most players first and confirm it is gone when its signature disappears from the next release.