diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a5f6bdc8..7671c591 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Config/testthat/parallel: true
 Encoding: UTF-8
 NeedsCompilation: yes
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
-RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
 Collate:
     'Dictionary.R'
     'named_list.R'
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index af4b500b..07e22e89 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # mlr3misc (development version)
 
+* Bugfix: `crate()` is using the correct 'topenv' environment now.
+
 # mlr3misc 0.15.1
 
 * refactor: Update `as_callback()` functions.
diff --git a/R/crate.R b/R/crate.R
index aaf9cddc..eaae3c5f 100644
--- a/R/crate.R
+++ b/R/crate.R
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 #' z = 300
 #' f = meta_f(1)
 #' f()
-crate = function(.fn, ..., .parent = topenv(), .compile = TRUE) {
+crate = function(.fn, ..., .parent = topenv(parent.frame()), .compile = TRUE) {
   assert_flag(.compile)
   .compile = .compile || is_compiled(.fn)
   nn = map_chr(substitute(list(...)), as.character)[-1L]
diff --git a/man/crate.Rd b/man/crate.Rd
index a84039ff..c8699d41 100644
--- a/man/crate.Rd
+++ b/man/crate.Rd
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 \alias{crate}
 \title{Isolate a Function from its Environment}
 \usage{
-crate(.fn, ..., .parent = topenv(), .compile = TRUE)
+crate(.fn, ..., .parent = topenv(parent.frame()), .compile = TRUE)
 }
 \arguments{
 \item{.fn}{(\verb{function()})\cr