diff --git a/math/R-cran-terra/Makefile b/math/R-cran-terra/Makefile
index bff694f8a328..ba6e77decc65 100644
--- a/math/R-cran-terra/Makefile
+++ b/math/R-cran-terra/Makefile
@@ -1,25 +1,23 @@
 PORTNAME=	terra
 DISTVERSION=	1.8-54
 CATEGORIES=	math
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	eduardo@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Spatiall Data Analysis
 WWW=		https://cran.r-project.org/package=terra
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3+
 
-BROKEN_i386=	https://github.com/rspatial/terra/issues/1846
-
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libgdal.so:graphics/gdal \
 		libgeos_c.so:graphics/geos \
 		libproj.so:graphics/proj
 CRAN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-Rcpp>0:devel/R-cran-Rcpp
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-deldir>0:math/R-cran-deldir \
 		R-cran-ncdf4>0:math/R-cran-ncdf4
 
 USES=		cran:auto-plist,compiles sqlite:3
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/math/R-cran-terra/files/patch-i386 b/math/R-cran-terra/files/patch-i386
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ba6c983cb12d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/math/R-cran-terra/files/patch-i386
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+From 891bb07da1152988225d1f1cfac75aabfa40df62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: rhijmans <r.hijmans@gmail.com>
+Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 07:51:14 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] for #1846
+
+---
+ src/gdal_multidimensional.cpp | 10 ++++++++--
+ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git src/gdal_multidimensional.cpp src/gdal_multidimensional.cpp
+index 7116212a9..42049f59a 100644
+--- src/gdal_multidimensional.cpp
++++ src/gdal_multidimensional.cpp
+@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
+ #include "file_utils.h"
+ #include "vecmath.h"
+ 
++#if defined(_WIN64) || defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__ppc64__) || defined(__aarch64__) || defined(__MINGW64__) || defined(__amd64__)
++    #define IS_64_BIT
++#endif
++
++
+ bool parse_ncdf_time(SpatRasterSource &s, const std::string unit, const std::string calendar, std::vector<double> raw, std::string &msg) {
+ 
+ 	std::vector<int_64> out;
+@@ -179,7 +184,7 @@ bool parse_ncdf_time(SpatRasterSource &s, const std::string unit, const std::str
+ 
+ 
+ 
+-#if GDAL_VERSION_MAJOR >= 3 && GDAL_VERSION_MINOR >= 4
++#if GDAL_VERSION_MAJOR >= 3 && GDAL_VERSION_MINOR >= 4 && defined(IS_64_BIT)
+ 
+ 
+ std::vector<std::string> GetArrayNames(std::shared_ptr<GDALGroup> x, bool filter) {
+@@ -804,8 +809,9 @@ bool SpatRaster::writeStopMulti() {
+ #else
+ 
+ 
++
+ bool SpatRaster::constructFromFileMulti(std::string fname, std::vector<int> subds, std::vector<std::string> subname, std::vector<std::string> drivers, std::vector<std::string> options, std::vector<int> dims, bool noflip, bool guessCRS, std::vector<std::string> domains) {
+-	setError("multidim is not supported with GDAL < 3.4");
++	setError("multidim is not supported with GDAL < 3.4 or on 32 bit systems");
+ 	return false;
+ }
+