Need help with crucible layouts

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Hi!
Can you help me please?
I know that someone found a way to choose crucible layout (switch off all cricibles except crucible of the dead for example). But the guide was deleted for some reason.
It involved extracting SurvivalMode1.arz and renaming maps survivalworld_a, b etc, then repacking it back and replacing the original file - something like that.

I’m really really tired of restarting over and over again to get the crucible I need. As far as I know, devs said they won’t add an option to select crucible in any near future.

So can you please show me the way to do this or at least name people I could ask about it?

Thanks!

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Here is what I’ve done so far:

  1. Using archivetool.exe I decompiled Maps.arc from the folder survivalmod1/resources and got a folder [maps] with 6 crucible maps:
    survivalworld_a.map
    survivalworld_b.map
    survivalworld_c.map
    survivalworld_d.map
    survivalworld_e.map
    survivalworld_f.map

  2. Need to figure out which of these is the map I need (crucible of the dead), but that’s not a problem, first I need to make any map work to know the method.
    So I chose survivalworld_a.map
    I deleted all the others and compiled folder [maps] with only this one map into Maps.arc
    I used special .exe from this video to do it:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtYQEjOwf5g

Then I changed the original Maps.arc with my new one - in folder [survivalmode1] and in folder mods/survivalmode

The result is that the game starts, but when I try to start crucible it won’t work, just throws me back into the start menu.

  1. I decided to try another approach: I renamed the files like this:
    survivalworld_a.map
    survivalworld_a_2.map
    survivalworld_a_3.map
    survivalworld_a_4.map
    survivalworld_a_5.map
    survivalworld_a_6.map

Then compiled them into Maps.arc and changed the original files in folder [survivalmode1] and in folder mods/survivalmode.

Still doesn’t work - throws me back into the start menu.

So maybe I should rename them in a very specific way? Could you give me some piece of advice please?

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IRC you need to replace every other with survival_a but keep the old names. Dunno which one is of dead. Perhaps the smallest file?

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Damn, this was such a great idea. Unfortunately, doesn’t work…
I feel like I’m so close but can’t figure out the last step.
So sad.