Cape

Capes are commemorative items and are worn in addition to the player's skin. They also change the appearance of worn elytra.

Java Edition
''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.''

The only cape that can be obtained on one's own, so far, in is the migrator cape which comes from migrating a Mojang account to a Microsoft account. The rest cannot be obtained by players through any in-game means and are therefore considerably rarer. Capes cannot be transferred between accounts.

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, even 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 programmes as well as individuals whose impact was recognized by Mojang. Only a few hundred players around the world have such a cape.

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

Bedrock Edition
Unlike, in , capes are much more common items with some skins from various skin packs having capes integrated to them. One such skin pack that was made available to everyone was 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. The Pan Cape is another cape exclusive to Bedrock Edition that was given to every player.

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

MINECON capes
(MINECON Live 2019) Founder's Cape is listed under .

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. ''

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

Minecon 2011
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.

''These capes are recreated and do not have original colors. The blue cape is the closest one to the original.''

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

These capes have original colors.

Elytra
When a player has a cape and equips elytra, the elytra take the place of the cape and adopts its design. If the cape texture has no elytra design, it has the default elytra design. Elytra shares the same texture (and layout) as the cape texture. One cannot get a cape by modifying the elytra texture.

Xbox avatar capes
Some of the minecon capes were also available as items for Xbox avatars.