Cape (2024)

Capes are commemorative items that can be worn in addition to the player's skin. However, unlike skins, players cannot create custom capes or transfer any owned capes to a different account. When equipped, they also change the appearance of worn elytra. Capes are purely decorational, and do not alter the wearers' capabilities in any way.

There are various mods, such as Optifine, that allow players to obtain capes, some even allowing for any custom design to be used. These capes are however not official and only visible to the player using the mod (or, in some cases, other users of that mod). Only official capes, that can be seen by everyone, are listed in this article.

Obtaining

Java Edition

The only capes that can be obtained on one's own, so far, in Java Edition are the migrator cape, which comes from migrating a Mojang account to a Microsoft account, and the vanilla cape, which comes from owning both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition in the same Microsoft account prior to June 6, 2022. The rest cannot be obtained by players through any in-game means and are therefore considerably rarer.

MINECON capes before Minecon Earth 2017 were obtained by attending or buying a ticket to the year's MINECON. Minecraft events from 2017 and onward are done via a livestream available to everyone and no capes are given out anymore. On May 12, 2020, Mojang disabled all unused MINECON cape links used to obtain the capes of years 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016. Only a few thousand players around the world have a MINECON cape.

Other less common types of capes have manually been given out by Mojang to select few members of the community throughout the years. Some of the people who have those capes include Mojang staff themselves, volunteers in various programs as well as individuals whose impact was recognized by Mojang. Only a few hundred players around the world have such a cape, with some capes being owned by a single individual only.

Players of Java Edition can equip or unequip certain capes for their skin via the Minecraft Launcher or their Minecraft profile.

Bedrock Edition

Unlike Java Edition, in Bedrock Edition, capes are much more common items with skins from various skin packs having capes integrated to them. One skin pack made available to every player is the MINECON 2016 skin pack that contains all five MINECON cape designs from Java Edition up to 2016. A cape celebrating Minecon Live 2019 was available in Bedrock Edition to promote the character creator, though it was obtainable by everyone regardless of whether they watched the event or not. Another cape made available to every player is the pan cape. Players who owned both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition on the same Microsoft account prior to June 6, 2022, were also given the vanilla cape. Some employees also have special capes in Bedrock Edition, similarly to Java Edition.

Players of Bedrock Edition can equip or unequip certain capes for their skin via the character creator.

Java Edition capes

Mojang capes

Name	Cape	Elytra	Texture	Notes	API Name
Mojang Cape (Classic)				This cape was given to employees of Mojang Studios. This design was used from December 20, 2010 to October 7, 2015. The file name for the cape on assets.minecraft.net was Morre.png, which is tomorrow in Swedish.[1]	Mojang-old
Mojang Cape				This cape was given to employees of Mojang Studios. This design was used from October 7, 2015 to July 25, 2021.	Mojang
Mojang Studios Cape				This cape was given to employees of Mojang Studios. This design has been used since July 25, 2021. It was made by Johan Aronson and it resembles the "Mojangs" or "gizmos" that make up the Mojang Studios logo.[2]	Mojang-new

MINECON capes

Name	Cape	Elytra	Texture	Notes	API Name
MINECON 2011Cape				This cape was given to MINECON 2011 attendees via their registered username.[3]	Minecon2011
MINECON 2012Cape				This cape was given to players who redeemed a link emailed to registered MINECON 2012 attendees.[3]	Minecon2012
MINECON 2013Cape				This cape was given to players who redeemed a link emailed to registered MINECON 2013 attendees, similar to MINECON 2012's method.[3]	Minecon2013
MINECON 2015Cape				This cape was given to players who redeemed a link emailed to registered MINECON 2015 attendees, provided that they had scanned their ticket at the venue's entrance on July 4, 2015.[3]	Minecon2015
MINECON 2016Cape				This cape was given to players who redeemed a link emailed to registered MINECON 2016 attendees, provided that they had scanned their ticket at the venue's entrance on September 24, 2016, similar to MINECON 2015's method.[3]	Minecon2016

This section is about Java Edition's capes. For Bedrock Edition's founder's cape, see § Character creator capes. For Bedrock Edition's MINECON skin pack capes, see § MINECON skin pack capes.

Minecraft Festival capes

Personal capes

Name	Cape	Elytra	Texture	Notes	API Name
Bacon cape		—		This cape was given to Miclee by Notch,[6] due to his idea of the Pigman.[7] However, the cape was later removed[8] after other users asked Notch for personal capes. The cape texture was made by Miclee and uploaded to imgur.[9]	—
Millionth Customer cape				This cape was given to akronman1, the lucky buyer of the 1,000,000th copy of Minecraft.[10][11][12] The cape was made by @Kinten.[13]	MillionthSale
dannyBstyle's cape				This cape was given to dannyBstyle, a video game music composer, as Notch was a fan of his music.[14]	dannyBstyle
JulianClark's cape				This cape was given to JulianClark in return for bringing Notch the TV presenter and actor Ray co*kes.[15]	JulianClark
cheapsh0t's cape				This cape was given to cheapsh0t on October 2013 for helping the Mojang team in Tokyo.[16][17][18] The cape is identical to the Translator cape except for the Japanese flag on the under side of the cape. This cape shares similar design style with Translator cape.	cheapsh0t
MrMessiah's cape				This cape was given to MrMessiah as a "thank you" for creating the BetterLight mod,[19] which is responsible for some of Minecraft's lighting and grass features. The cape was discussed in 2011, however it wasn't granted until 2015. The designer of the cape is uncertain but MrMessiah believes it was Jeb.[20]	MrMessiah
Prismarine cape				This cape was given to Drullkus by Jeb for recreating the prismarine block for use in his Chisel mod rather than modifying Mojang's texture.[21][22][23].	Prismarine
Birthday cape				This cape was given to Mojang employee Gr8Bizzo (formerly Gr8_Escape).[24]	Birthday
Valentine cape				This cape was given to LolFoxy2 by a Mojang employee after resolving LolFoxy2's problems with migration to a Microsoft account. However, the cape was later removed after the Mojang employee realizing its rarity.[25]	Valentine

Other capes

Name	Cape	Elytra	Texture	Notes	API Name
Translator cape				This cape was given to some proofreaders[26] (experienced translators with moderation permissions for their language) on the Minecraft translation project in Crowdin. Originally, these capes were given out on May 16, 2012 using a fair dice roll to 29 contributors,[27][28] with plans to give more capes from time to time.[29] Jeb later said that he canceled those plans after seeing abusive behavior from some translators, such as using auto-translation and down-voting legitimate translations.[30] The cape was again used a few years later to reward certain proofreaders for important contribution to the project.	Translator
Chinese Translator cape				This cape was given to Powup333, Craft_Lawrence and sjjklh on June 4, 2015 for playing vital roles on the Minecraft translation project in Crowdin in Chinese.[31] The cape is identical to the Translator cape except for the Chinese flag on the under side of the cape. This cape shares similar design style with cheapsh0t's cape.	Translator-Chinese
Scrolls Champion cape				This cape was given to players who earned the Weekly First Place winner badge five times in Scrolls starting on November 7, 2014. During Minecon 2015, the Scrolls Minecon Open was also held for Scrolls' ingame items and other prizes including the cape in Minecraft.[32] As of September 30, 2015, it is no longer possible to earn this cape.[33]On December 11 - 12, 2014, all players were temporarily shown with this cape to celebrate the release of Scrolls.[34] However, it was not added to accounts.	ScrollsChamp
Cobalt cape				This cape was given to participants/winners of level-making competitions and the Cobalt League tournaments in 2016.[35] The design of the cape's elytra texture is based on a wasp enemy from Cobalt.[36]	Cobalt
Mojira Moderator cape				This cape was given to moderators on the Bug tracker.	Moderator
Realms MapMaker cape				This cape was given to mapmakers in the Java Realms Content Creator Program who met the criteria listed here.	MapMaker
Turtle cape				This cape was given to billyK_ for his suggestion to add turtles into the game.[37] The cape was also given to Mojang employees Michael Andersson and el_hefe_ for cape endpoint testing. However, it was later removed from the two.[citationneeded]	Turtle
Migrator cape				This cape was given to players who have bought Minecraft before December 1, 2020[38] and migrated their Mojang or legacy account to a Microsoft account,[39][40] starting on July 9, 2021.[41] The official cape design was released by Ined on Twitter on June 30, 2021.[42] Before the cape's release, text was found in language files that read "And... a special Veteran Cape for each year you've played Java Edition!" Later on, images were found on the support page with similar text. It is unknown why this text existed, as Mojang have made no comment regarding it.[43][44]	Migrator

Temporary capes

Name	Cape	Texture	Notes
Christmas 2010 cape			All players were temporarily shown with this cape during Christmas of 2010. However, it was not added to accounts.
New Year 2011 cape			All players were temporarily shown with this cape during New Year's Eve of 2011. However, it was not added to accounts.

April Fools caeps

These caeps were released as a part of the 23w13a-or-b April Fools update on April 1st 2023 and can be obtained in a vote.

These capes are exclusive to the 23w13a-or-b update and are not assigned to any player's account.

The word "Cape" is intentionally misspelled to "Caep" in the game files and in the vote.

Name	Cape	Texture	Notes
Awesom caep			—
Blonk caep			This cape is an edited Mojang cape used in 2015 with the Mojang logo being painted over with red color.
No-Circle caep			A cape that reminds players that no circles are allowed in Minecraft
Nyan caep			This cape is a reference to the Nyan Cat music video.
Squid caep			—
Veterinarian caep			—

Bedrock Edition capes

Character creator capes

Note: One Vanilla cape is listed under Cross-Platform capes

Name	Icon	Cape	Elytra	Texture	Notes
Founder's Cape					This cape was given to players who claimed it in the Marketplace when it was distributed as a promotion for the Character Creator during MINECON Live 2019. On December 29, 2021, the price of the cape was changed to 10 million Minecoins (roughly equivalent to over $55,000.00 USD).
The Pan Cape!					This cape was given to all players in the Character Creator cape page. It can be equipped via the cape select screen. When elytra are worn with the cape, a pancake with maple syrup and butter design is visible.
Mojang Studios Cape					This cape was given to Mojang Studios developers. This cape was added into the game on December 10, 2021. On December 29, 2021 at around 2:00 CET, the cape's icon, name and texture were changed to look like the pan cape. It's rarity was changed to Common and price set to 10 million Minecoins to combat players using an exploit to add this cape to their accounts.[citationneeded] It was put back into the game as a new Character Creator cape on January 18, 2022. The old version of this cape (changed looks to pan cape) can still be equipped if the player has it.
Progress Pride Cape					This cape is free and part of Pride 2023 Sale and its collection released on August 1, 2023 at 19:00 CET in Minecraft Bedrock Marketplace. There have been 3 revisions made to this cape texture. This cape is only available in certain regions of the world. Initial texture created on March 13, 2023 2nd revision on July 14, 2023 3rd revision (latest) on August 1, 2023 Revision 3 texture was released at 18:30 CET on August 1, 2023.

Other capes

Name	Cape	Elytra	Texture	Notes
Microsoft Xbox cape		—		This cape was given to Microsoft employees on Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition with the ability to toggle the cape's visibility[45] Note: The cape texture is a recreation and is used in the preview image.

Skin pack capes

Some capes are missing including all from LittleBigPlanet™ Mash-Up Pack, Marvel Avengers Skin Pack and other from Legacy Console Editions or other editions.

Skin pack capes

Name	Cape	Texture	Notes
Ender dragon wings cape			This cape was made for the ender dragon skin included in the 1st Birthday Skin Pack and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
Devil's cape			This cape was made for the Devil skin included in the Halloween Mash-Up and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
Dracula's cape			This cape was made for the Dracula skin included in the Halloween Mash-Up and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
Evil Wizard's cape			This cape was made for the Evil Wizard skin included in the Halloween Mash-Up and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
Bride of Frankenstein's cape			This cape was made for the Bride of Frankenstein skin included in the Halloween Mash-Up and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
The grim reaper's cape			This cape was made for The Grim Reaper skin included in the Halloween Mash-Up and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
Wicked witch's cape			This cape was made for the Wicked Witch skin included in the Halloween Mash-Up and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
Maman Brigitte's cape			This cape was made for the Maman Brigitte skin included in the Halloween Mash-Up and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
Male spartan's cape			This cape was made for the Male Spartan skin included in Battles & Beasts Skin Pack and can only be shown with the skin equipped.
Female spartan's cape			This cape was made for the Female Spartan skin included in Battles & Beasts Skin Pack and can only be shown with the skin equipped.
Padmé Amidala's cape			This cape was made for the Senator Padmé Amidala skin included in Star Wars Prequel Skin Pack and can only be shown with the skin equipped.
Palpatine's cape			This cape was made for the Senator Palpatine skin included in Star Wars Prequel Skin Pack and can only be shown with the skin equipped.
Count Dooku's cape			This cape was made for the Count Dooku skin included in Star Wars Prequel Skin Pack and can only be shown with the skin equipped.
General Grievous's cape			This cape was made for the General Grievous skin included in Star Wars Prequel Skin Pack and can only be shown with the skin equipped.
Boss Nass's cape			This cape was made for the Boss Nass skin included in Star Wars Prequel Skin Pack and can only be shown with the skin equipped.
Mas Amedda's cape			This cape was made for the Mas Amedda skin included in Star Wars Prequel Skin Pack and can only be shown with the skin equipped.
Poggle the Lesser's cape			This cape was made for the Poggle the Lesser skin included in Star Wars Prequel Skin Pack and can only be shown with the skin equipped.
Lando Calrissian's cape			This cape was made for the Lando Calrissian skin included in Star Wars Classic Skin Pack and can only be shown with the skin equipped.
Skyrim Nazir's cape			This cape was made for the Skyrim Nazir skin included in the Skyrim Mash-Up and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
Skyrim Vampire Lord's cape			This cape was made for the Skyrim Vampire Lord skin included in the Skyrim Mash-Up and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
Huntress Wizard's cape			This cape was made for the Huntress Wizard skin included in the Adventure Time Mash-Up and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
Maori's cape			This cape was made for the Maori skin included in the Battle & Beasts 2 Skin Pack and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
Arabian's cape			This cape was made for the Arabian skin included in the Battle & Beasts 2 Skin Pack and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
Halo Drone's cape			This cape was made for the Halo Drone skin included in the Halo Mash-Up and could only be shown with the skin equipped.
Jens's cape			This cape was made for Jens included in the 3rd Birthday Skin Pack and could only be shown with the skin equipped.

MINECON skin pack capes

MINECON 2015 Skin Pack

Name	Cape	Texture	Notes
Cape 2011			These capes from previous years' MINECON events were included in the Minecon 2015 Skin Pack. The skin pack was made available to every Bedrock Edition player in 2015 regardless of whether they attended any of the events. These capes are not to be confused with the ones given to MINECON attendees in Java Edition in the previous years.
Cape 2012
Cape 2013
Cape 2015

MINECON 2016 Skin Pack

Name	Cape	Texture	Notes
Cape 2011			These capes from previous years' MINECON events were included in the Minecon 2016 Skin Pack. The skin pack was made available to every Bedrock Edition player in 2016 regardless of whether they attended any of the events. These capes are not to be confused with the ones given to MINECON attendees in Java Edition in the previous years.
Cape 2012
Cape 2013
Cape 2015
Cape 2016

Temporary capes

Name	Cape	Texture	Notes
1st Birthday cape			From May 9 to May 13, 2013, all players of the Xbox 360 Edition were shown with this cape (except for players who were using skins that have their own cape) to celebrate the 1st birthday of the Xbox 360 Edition of Minecraft.[46][47] A version of the cape does not exist in any other edition of Minecraft. This cape was not added to their accounts.

Cross-Platform capes

Capes listed here are available for both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition games.

Name	Bedrock Edition Character Creator Icon	Cape	Elytra	Texture	Notes	Java Edition API Name
Vanilla cape ‌[Java Edition only] One Vanilla cape ‌[Bedrock Edition only]		‌[Java Edition only] ‌[Bedrock Edition only]	‌[Java Edition only] ‌[Bedrock Edition only]		This cape is being given out to players who bought both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition for Windows before June 6, 2022 and can be equipped in both editions.[48] The existence of this cape was leaked in an image for an article on the minecraft.net news page on August 12th, 2022, at around 10:00 GMT.[49] The article page gave error code 404. The article was then published on August 15th, 2022, at around 15:00 GMT, and deleted at around 16:00 GMT the same day. A message was also posted on the official Minecraft Discord server, officially confirming the cape.[50] There is an error made by the artist where side textures are flipped so they appear incorrectly in-game. This error may affect future/other capes aswell. This cape was added into Bedrock Edition on August 22, 2022 at 17:26 GMT. This cape was given out to eligible players since Wednesday, August 31, 2022.[51] Account migrations that took place after June 6, 2022, were not eligible for the cape.[51]	Vanilla
Follower's Cape					This cape was given to players who participated in the TikTok Minecraft livestream of a partnering content creator. The cape could be redeemed through a code shown to the user through a pop-up dialog in TikTok.
Purple Heart Cape					This cape was given to players who participated in the Twitch Minecraft livestream of a partnering content creator for at least 15 minutes, with Drops turned on. The cape could be redeemed through a code sent to the user's Twitch notifications.
15th Anniversary Cape					This cape was given to visitors of the 15 Year Anniversary page on Minecraft.net who selected the claim button.
MCC 15th Year Cape					This cape is given to players for completing all 15 challenges at the MCC x Minecraft 15th Anniversary Party event server hosted on Bedrock Edition from July 22, 2024 to August 4, 2024.

Xbox 360 Avatar capes

These capes are available for Xbox 360 avatars as additional cosmetic item.

Name	Cape	Texture	Notes
1st birthday cape			This cape can be purchased at the Xbox 360 Marketplace and equipped for player's Xbox avatar.
Minecon 2011 cape			A card was given to all MINECON 2011 attendees and contained a redemption code for Xbox Live. It uses the same design as the in-game cape from Java Edition. The cape was then put on Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition as avatar downloadable content. It can also be purchased on the Xbox 360 Marketplace.
Minecon 2012 cape			A card was given to all MINECON 2012 attendees upon check-in that contained a redemption code for Xbox Live. It uses the same design as the in-game cape from Java Edition. It can also be purchased on the Xbox 360 Marketplace.
Minecon 2013 cape			This cape can be purchased at the Xbox 360 Marketplace and equipped for player's Xbox avatar.
Minecon 2015 cape			This cape can be purchased at the Xbox 360 Marketplace and equipped for player's Xbox avatar.
Minecraft cape			This cape can be purchased at the Xbox 360 Marketplace and equipped for player's Xbox avatar.

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  The Xbox avatar version of the Minecon 2011 cape.

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  The Xbox avatar version of the Minecon 2012 cape.

Unused capes

Java Edition

These capes were featured in a poll where MINECON 2011 attendees could vote for their cape of choice. The red creeper cape won MINECON 2011, and the blue cape with the pickaxe was for MINECON 2012. These following capes are still unused though may appear in the future.^[52]

Cape
Texture
Source	MINECON 2011

Mojang has confirmed that a number of unused capes have existed in the Customer Support tool, which have never been shown to the public. Some of them, such as the birthday cape, were first given an owner a long time after they had been made.^[53]

Bedrock Edition

These capes are from Bedrock edition skin packs and are currently not used in any skin pack.

Cape
Texture
Source	Star Wars Prequel Skin Pack		Adventure Time Mash-Up

History

Issues

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Gallery

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  The millionth customer cape.

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  First image of a cape in Bedrock Edition.

References