[MCL-25873] Launcher Quick Play buttons display incorrect information

The Quick Play buttons almost never display the correct information. My current game, which I’ve been into twice already today, says “17 days since last launch”. Earlier today, it said “16 days …”.

I’m not sure how you can reproduce this, unless it happens to a lot of people.

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BilloGates 2025-10-04T20:40:00Z

I couldn't reproduce.

However it will be better if you report this to the Minecraft Launcher channel (https://report.bugs.mojang.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/7)

SirDaddicus 2025-10-05T13:32:25Z

Then move it there. I don’t know how.

SirDaddicus 2025-10-07T14:05:29Z

Still happening. It’s up to saying it’s been 20 days, even though I log in every day.

SirDaddicus 2025-10-07T14:06:00Z

SirDaddicus 2025-10-10T15:58:00Z

It’s up to 23 days.

Note that other entries are correct and incorrect, depending on the entry.

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SirDaddicus 2025-10-13T00:12:27Z

Thank you BilloGates, for moving this bug report to the launcher area.

SirDaddicus 2025-10-14T19:20:44Z

It’s up to 27 days. Seems to be counting accurately, but doesn’t seem to be resetting.

SirDaddicus 2025-10-17T13:54:08Z

Now it says “1 month”.

SirDaddicus 2025-10-26T12:36:02Z

It still says 1 month. Note that other icons display the correct information.

SirDaddicus 2025-11-04T16:38:48Z

Is anybody going to look into this?

SirDaddicus 2025-11-14T16:31:33Z

I got tired of that game, so I started a new one. This one is showing the same symptom (but only up to eighteen hours, despite my having played less than three hours ago).

SirDaddicus 2025-11-15T20:59:23Z

OK, I figured out part of the problem. There are buttons for two games with the same name in the launcher window. I was using one of the buttons, but it never updated. Then I started using the other button, and it updates properly.

So, if this is the WHOLE problem (I can’t be sure if it is or not), then how did two different buttons pointing to the same saved game show up in the launcher?

It’s possible there is another bug, but I think if this one gets solved, many instances of this problem might disappear. Where are the buttons defined?

SirDaddicus 2025-11-17T18:34:40Z

Another note: both buttons open the game. So the launcher somehow created two buttons that point to the same game, but only one of them updates when the game launches. Note that the one that updates updates regardless of which button was used to launch the game the last time:

I used the “bad” button to launch the game. It worked. Then I shut down the game, including the launcher. I went back into the launcher, and the button that works was updates with the time stamp of when I used the “bad” button.

THAT should help solve the problem!

Jim

SirDaddicus 2025-11-21T00:57:42Z

I’ve narrowed it down, I think. I accidentally overwrote one game with the backup from another game. That may be what created (creates? actively?) the second icon.

The current icon is showing the correct data, but the secondary icon still shows a lot of time has passed.

Is there a way to clear buttons from the quick launch menu? Specifically, buttons that haven’t been used in a while or don’t have actual games associated with them? If so, that would solve this problem, I think.

SirDaddicus 2025-11-26T16:41:30Z

OK, that wasn’t the whole problem. So now we have two problems.

New game, I played earlier today (and yesterday, etc.), and it says I haven’t played for two days already. Note that this is in the other view (from the Home tab, rather than the Java tab). But I checked, and the other tab shows the same error.

SirDaddicus 2025-11-26T16:42:50Z

SirDaddicus 2025-11-30T20:51:33Z

I think I figured out a major part of the bug:

When I create worlds, I use the seed number as the name. In yesterday’s case, I created a world called 5971c. (The “c” stands for creative mode.) I used this world, as I always do, to scout out the new world I’m considering. Once I’m OK with the world, I exit and “Recreate” the world, but I use the same name, without the “c” at the end (to indicate, to me, “not creative mode”).

But the launcher dropped the “c” on the buttons. So, when I hover over either button, it says 5971, even though the other button SHOULD say 5971c.

Now for the big part: the second button, with the incorrect name – without the “c” – brings me into the non-creative game, instead of the creative mode version.

So the launcher seems to be dropping the last letter, forming two buttons, both of which point to the same saved game. The other (creative) game still exists, but I can’t get to it from the launcher. I can only see it if I open “Play Java” first.

So, it seems the bug is incorrectly naming the button that shows up in the launcher to a similar, but not identical, game.

SirDaddicus 2025-12-01T19:33:01Z

OK, I went into the creative game (5971c), and a new button was created. Both of the 5971 buttons still exist. So my guess is that it’s the act of re-creating the game from the other game that causes the errant button naming to happen.

Clearly a bug, but not a high-priority bug.

You can reproduce by creating a game (creative mode, to get the details precise). Go into the world for a bit. Then exit. Highlight the new game, and use the “Re-Create” button, and give it a different name (I used 5971c and 5971 – that might be relevant). Log out of the game and then log out of the launcher. Bring the launcher back up. I suspect you will have two buttons, both of which read 5971. Their timestamps will match the two games while they were separate, but both buttons will point to the new, non-creative game (5971).

For completeness, I also used Seed 5971 when I created the first 5971c game. Now you know where the name of the game came from. 🙂

SirDaddicus 2025-12-06T04:06:49Z

I have confirmed the previous two paragraphs. I created a game, ran for a while, and saved over the creative version of the game. The icon, which had been correct (5991c, in this case) changed to say 5991 once I overwrote it.

Then I deleted that copy of the game (which also had changed its name in the launcher list), and created a new one from scratch. The new one had the correct name, and the icon brought it up instead of the non-creative game, as it did before.

The timestamps also seem to be correct, although I only did this today, so I don’t know if it will hold up over a few days. I’ll report back after the weekend.

SirDaddicus 2026-05-17T18:58:02Z

I think you can close this, but it would probably be a good idea for code to be written to avoid this problem. The game launcher remembers only the numerical part of the name, when it’s the same as the seed number, if one goes into the game in the “wrong” order.

I haven’t seen it since I started opening the games in the “correct” order.

SirDaddicus 2026-07-19T23:03:35Z

I rescind my statement that you can close this. I was able to reproduce it:

Create a game. I used seed 6043. I gave it the name 6043c (“c” for creative mode).
Duplicate the game, but give it the name 6043 (without the “c”, because it’s in survival mode, but I don’t think that’s relevant).

The launcher will display BOTH games with the same label, 6043 (even though one should have a “c” at the end).

Randomly, the correct copy of the game may or may not be chosen. If the wrong game is attached to the launcher label, then the time since launch message will be wrong, and it will never correct itself. The other game, even though that button isn’t being used, will update with the correct time since last launch information.

The key problem is that both games will have the same label in the launcher, and the launcher will not distinguish between them. (Launching the other button will launch the same game, not the creative/survival version of it.)

Probably a placeholder register problem in the launcher code.

[MCQA] Vikonchiik 2026-09-01T10:18:59Z

Thank you for your report!

Is this issue present in the latest version of Minecraft Launcher?

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SirDaddicus 2026-09-05T03:41:01Z

It was when I last posted. But as of today, it seems fixed. The two buttons show different names (in this case, 6085 and 6085c).

Did someone actually do something to the code?