The rarest Minecraft capes and their stories

Most official capes went to thousands or millions of players. A few were made for a single person, a team or one event, and some were taken back almost immediately. This ranking goes from the rarest to the merely rare.

Given to the player who bought the 1,000,000th copy of Minecraft on January 12, 2011. There is exactly one.

Notch gave it to the composer dannyBstyle because he liked his music. The original account later changed names after being hacked, which makes this one-owner cape even harder to spot.

A reward for a meme about Ray Cokes. The account that owned it was lost during the account migration, so no active player shows it.

MrMessiah received it in 2015 for BetterLight, the mod behind Minecraft's smooth lighting. Another single-owner cape.

Jeb gave it to the modder Drullkus, who drew his own prismarine texture for the Chisel mod instead of copying Mojang's.

A personal cape on the account of a Mojang Studios employee, seen on a single player.

A thank-you for helping the Mojang team during a trip to Tokyo in 2013, with a Japanese flag on the inside.

Only three translators received it, in June 2015, for their work on the Chinese translation.

Worn by Mojang employees between 2010 and 2015, when the studio was a small team. It was never given to players.

The first event cape, for ticket holders of the convention where Minecraft 1.0 launched. It is the rarest cape a regular player could have earned.

Four capes were removed from their owners shortly after being given. The Bacon Cape was one of the very first personal capes; the Valentine Cape, the Oxeye Cape and the Blueprint Cape appeared briefly on a few accounts in 2023 and 2025. They now exist only as textures.

No rare cape can be bought, traded or unlocked. To see the status of every cape, open the full list of Minecraft capes, and for the ones you can still earn, read how to get a cape.