Unlike Java Edition, in Bedrock Edition, capes are much more common items with some skins from various skin packs having capes integrated to them. Players of Java Edition can equip or unequip certain capes for their skin via the Minecraft Launcher or their Minecraft profile. Only a few hundred players around the world have such a cape. 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.

Other, even less common, types of capes have manually been given out by Mojang to select few members of the community throughout the years. Only a few thousand players around the world have a MINECON cape. On May 12, 2020, Mojang disabled all unused MINECON cape links used to obtain the capes of years 2012, 2013, 20. Minecraft events from 2017 and onward are done via a livestream available to everyone and no capes are given out anymore. MINECON capes before Minecon Earth 2017 were obtained by attending or buying a ticket to the year's MINECON. Capes cannot be transferred between accounts. The rest cannot be obtained by players through any in-game means and are therefore considerably rarer.

The only cape that can be obtained on one's own, so far, in Java Edition is the migrator cape which comes from migrating a Mojang account to a Microsoft account. Only official capes, that can be seen by everyone, are listed in this article. These capes are however not official and only visible to the player using the mod (or in some cases, other users of that mod). There are various mods such as Optifine that allow players to obtain capes, some even allowing for any custom design to be used.

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