I'm trying to do an alchemy setup. I've got my Exchange Tablet, all my Alchemy Pedestals with aspecti in them, and ash in the ones that need it. I've also got the correct recipe in the Exchange Tablet, and my Beam Cannon is correctly aimed towards the top of the Exchange Tablet. However, when I try to shoot the Beam Cannon to initiate alchemy the beam hits the Tablet but doesn't do anything. This is really frustrating as it completely prevents me from accessing a significant portion of late-game content.

I'm running version 0.230.

This seems to have been a one time thing as I tried it a couple hundred blocks away and it worked perfectly. Must've had something to do with one of two things: the item vacuum I had about 10 blocks away or the fact that my game crashed when I was next to that original alchemy setup.