Support Quick Play

[RyanTheAllmighty]

23w14a added in Quick Play which allows launching directly into a server, realm or singleplayer world (https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-23w14a).

Would be good to have a setting per instance to auto launch into a server (old MC versions support --server and --port) or singleplayer world

[RyanTheAllmighty]

Looks like it's in the game arguments in the json definition now:

      {
        "rules": [
          {
            "action": "allow",
            "features": {
              "has_quick_plays_support": true
            }
          }
        ],
        "value": [
          "--quickPlayPath",
          "${quickPlayPath}"
        ]
      },
      {
        "rules": [
          {
            "action": "allow",
            "features": {
              "is_quick_play_singleplayer": true
            }
          }
        ],
        "value": [
          "--quickPlaySingleplayer",
          "${quickPlaySingleplayer}"
        ]
      },
      {
        "rules": [
          {
            "action": "allow",
            "features": {
              "is_quick_play_multiplayer": true
            }
          }
        ],
        "value": [
          "--quickPlayMultiplayer",
          "${quickPlayMultiplayer}"
        ]
      },
      {
        "rules": [
          {
            "action": "allow",
            "features": {
              "is_quick_play_realms": true
            }
          }
        ],
        "value": [
          "--quickPlayRealms",
          "${quickPlayRealms}"
        ]
      }
    ],

[Jack-McKalling]

This would be my vision for how it should work;

When your instance already has worlds, its Play dropdown button should provide an option for quickplay mode, and if it hasn't already have settings for that saved, clicking the option would provide with a selection of all available worlds to choose from that instance, and once selected the setting is saved on the instance.

Since the play button already has an online and offline option, you could split the quickplay similarly as well. Both quickplay options having their own settings.

The Servers tab could have a similar quickplay button for the multiplayer mode.

At all times, each instance and server should offer a dedicated settings tab for modifying or removing any previously defined quickplay settings, or manually define any anew.

[EchoEllet]

When your instance already has worlds, its Play dropdown button should provide an option for quickplay mode, and if it hasn't already have settings for that saved, clicking the option would provide with a selection of all available worlds to choose from that instance, and once selected the setting is saved on the instance.

Since the play button already has an online and offline option, you could split the quickplay similarly as well. Both quickplay options having their own settings.

The Servers tab could have a similar quickplay button for the multiplayer mode.

At all times, each instance and server should offer a dedicated settings tab for modifying or removing any previously defined quickplay settings, or manually define any anew.

Did you imagine it like this? The UI still needs to be updated

[Jack-McKalling]

Yes, that would be the settings screen of an instance, offering the settings for the quick play. Of course this is only a part of what I described. But it looks good so far.

[EchoEllet]

Yes, that would be the settings screen of an instance, offering the settings for the quick play. Of course this is only a part of what I described. But it looks good so far.

I would like to hear more about what you suggested so I can improve it

[EchoEllet]

(old MC versions support --server and --port) or singleplayer world

Any idea how to load a single-player world in older versions of Minecraft? Which argument should be used?

[Jack-McKalling]

I'm not sure how the mechanic works internally, so I can't suggest how to handle older worlds. I also don't know whom to ask, besides mojang but I'd prefer not to ask them if I can avoid it.

How I'd like to see it work though, if possible. Is that with this settings screen you can save the specific parameters and other details about what you need to make it run the game like that. And then in the Instances menu (and Servers menu too), there already is the Play button with a dropdown, which could be extended to include the options to play the game in this quick-play mode. It would add e.g. a "Quickplay online" and "Quickplay offline" option, which would launch the game with the previously saved settings in the above screen.

Instances:

And somewhere here for servers:

But really, it's just a basic suggestion about the interface, I don't know anything about the mechanism itself. Maybe you could use the dropdown label "Quick Play Single Player World" for the 2nd dropdown box (bold words added), just to clarify for the first glance that the option is used for quick play settings. I'm thinking about a horizontal rule too, but I notice none of the menus have one, so that would be out of place.

[atlauncher-bot]

This has been fixed with version 3.4.37.0