The 2024 Minecraft Cape Revolution

Owning a Minecraft cape used to be rare, but that's all changed now in 2024! Plus, with the MCC cape, you have to earn it like never before!
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There's a revolution going on with Minecraft capes in 2024. You see, capes used to be an exceedingly rare thing to obtain for your account. Up until 2016, the only capes the general public could obtain were the MineCon capes. From 2021 until 2023, a few additional capes were added that were pretty easy to get. But the newest cape added in 2024 flips the script, and is honestly quite difficult to get, relatively speaking. The MCC cape. Let's talk about the implementation of this Minecraft cape, and what it means for the future of obtaining Minecraft capes!

0:00 Capes used to be rare!
3:35 The 2024 MCC Cape!
6:15 Criticisms & Ideas

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[AntVenom]

I feel like there has been some confusion in the comments about whether or not the MCC cape will be a Java Edition cape as well. I only briefly had a note about this at 1:55, but, yes! It will be! The server to earn it is Bedrock only, but the cape will carry over to that M$ account's Java Edition profile too! Java Edition profiles will get the cape on August 5th, one day after the event ends.

[cobble]

The only thing that gets devalued is the statement "I have a cape". Old capes are still quite cool to see

[LBoomsky]

Well crap, after antvenom covers it, now EVERYONE'S gonna know the mcc cape will be given to people on java that unlock it on the bedrock server!
(you got 7 days left to obtain it btw!)

[pasanaator]

MC capes are becoming a bit like what you'd see in other multiplayer games, except that you can't buy them. Seeing a golden pan in TF2 or a gem in C2 is always quite special, despite there being thousands of other less valuable skins and items.

[nappeywappey]

I don't understand the argument that "capes are devalued" they're not giving old capes anymore so they don't lose value. Plus the nearest Minecon to my location ever hosted was still 4, 000km away so this new method is great for me and many others, and doesn't mean that they won't give a cape for things like the "Save the village" IRL event.

[Noobdrone]

I never got the vanilla cape even though I still had both game, and recently emailed mojang about it, but they can't give me that cape cuz what they said, is: Kindly note that the Vanilla cape was gifted to the players using an automated system that is no longer active. We are unable to review what might have happened, or why you didn't receive the cape. However, we must be clear that we are no longer able to provide the cape to any player, as the rollout for the gift has concluded.

I am really pissed about this

[GSBarlev]

I definitely felt like I *earned* that TikTok cape. The instructions were _incredibly_ unclear, and I bounced from stream to stream on desktop for more than an hour before someone reported that you needed to use the app.

Ultimately, whatever Mojang was driving for with those promotions just backfired, as content creators just trying to stream got flooded with spam until the promotion period ended.

[TheRedCap]

I have the Minecon 2013 cape. It was a birthday present from Mom for my 10th birthday, as I happened to live not even an hour from where the convention was happening.

I've had several people offer to buy it off me, but I wouldn't sell it for the world. Both the cape and the account as a whole has significant sentimental value to me, as I've owned this account since 2012 when I first started playing.

No matter how many new capes I add to my account, I don't think I'll ever equip anything but that piston on a green background. People always freak out when they see it and for a brief moment I'm the center of attention on any server I join.

[DangerKitty]

One thing I don’t see anyone talking about is that we aren’t celebrating bedrocks birthday, we’re celebrating javas birthday, so why is this mcc server on available on bedrock? I personally don’t have a way to play bedrock because I play on Mac and it’s not available on iOS. My problem with this cape is that you have to log onto bedrock for it. Not fair Microsoft.

[MaxmusPrime]

There’s nothing wrong with Mojang releasing these capes. They just need to make sure to double check their work. Case in point, the rollout of the Vanilla cape was wildly a failure. With many bugs not being caught and leaving people (like me) who were eligible without them. Mojang needs to rapidly address this.

[Saiune]

Honestly i would really love the idea of having a cape tied to the year you bought your minecraft account. (2009-now)

It would give veterans a really cool reward while newer players dont feel left out of the capes.

I've had my account since 2011 since i was 12 and could not attend minecon and just had to vibe with the Optifine cape.

So to have a cape to feel like a veteran for owning the game for such a long time would be amazing.

[Krtzyy]

I like the new capes! The last Minecon happened when I was 16 lol I never even had a chance to get one, always felt like I missed out. I think they should do more limited-time capes (or maybe just bring minecon back)

[MrExplosion]

If the server was available for Java edition, I’d probably do it

[SemiHypercube]

I do wonder if they ever brought back in-person Minecraft events, would they even have capes associated with them or would they decide that it's not accessible enough for newer capes these days and not have one?



Also you really did just flex how many capes you have

[CodyLedger]

Right now, I have 5 capes on Minecraft Java

I would have 6, but I didn’t buy bedrock and Java on the same account

[WaveSmash]

Despite voting in the Mob vote via the launcher, AND the bedrock event, I never got the Cherry Blossom cape or even knew it existed until recently. I contacted Mojang support and they said they can't help me lol. Very cool.

[dianaisnthere]

6:23 "muh cape value!!!" if people care so much about the value of pixels they should go buy an nft

[AQLV]

capes also pose a huge personal safety risk to players with rare capes- unfortunately it's only a matter of time before someone is physically maimed or gravely injured by malicious account extortion groups all because they didn't want to sell their "rare" minecraft account.

[sullyfera]

Sometimes, I still wear the Founder's Cape on Bedrock. It reminds me that I've played that version before the Character Creator existed.

Yesterday, I managed to get the MCC Cape. The amount of time and effort I've put in to get it really made it feel special seeing it appear on my screen. While some of the mini-games had lag spikes, it paid off in the end.

I hope that Mojang continues this trend for earning capes, or even brand new player cosmetics to match with capes!

[_IHM.]

I think they should make every Cape cross platform