Journey: Steelsmith BUG. 'Craft Tar in Tannery' step

[Zenith]

The first step to craft or access a Firebowl Cauldron went off without a hitch.

The second step to craft Tar in a dryer (wrong station, for what it’s worth) is not passing.
I have placed the hide and bark in a Tannery Station and removed the Tar, but the Journey will not progress.

No error messages, is there a known mod that is a problem child for this particular progression point?

EDIT: No completion notice, but after simply exiting to main menu and then rejoining, it skipped the step entirely, am now on the Brimstone portion.

Weird, but at least I got to move forward.

[Kapoteeni]

In my case, the problem was that I already had some tar in my inventory. Once I got rid of that and repeated the step, it completed. Obviously too late to help you, but may help someone else in a similar situation.