Quick Play

Quick Play is a feature available in the Minecraft Launcher, allowing players to directly join a singleplayer world or a multiplayer server, by skipping the menus in-between.[1]

Quick Play instances are created automatically once you play in a world or a server. They appear as icons stacked next to the green "Play" button on the Java Edition or Bedrock Edition tabs of the launcher. By hovering over the icons with the mouse, all buttons are shown separately and show the name, installation, last played date, multiplayer type, and game mode. Instances are sorted from the most recently played (bottom) to the least recently played (top).

There are a total of five slots. Once they are all filled, playing another world causes the oldest instance to be removed from the list, and the newest instance to be added. This behavior can be avoided by pinning instances; however, pinned instances still count for the five slots.