Starting Wednesday, August 31, we will be rolling out this ravishing reward to players throughout the week. Like previous capes, it should show up in your Dressing Room or the Skin Customization menu automatically. To show our gratitude towards players who already had both editions before we announced we’d start selling them together, we’re going to give you the new Vanilla cape! So if you owned both Java and Bedrock Edition on PC on a single account before J(whether by purchase or by code redemption), you will be receiving this special cape shortly, and you’ll be able to wear it in both editions.

But what if you owned both editions a long time ago? What do you get then? To change the cape's appearance, go to Settings > Skin Customization > OptiFine Cape > Open Cape Editor.When Minecraft: Java & Bedrock Edition for PC launched, players who owned one edition received the other one for free. Still, it can be fun to have a cool cape, especially if you're streaming your gameplay.

The Optifine mod comes with a cape, but you'll be the only one that sees it.

To make your own cape from scratch, download the cape template, edit it with Paint (or any editing app you like, and then upload the edited version to a free image hosting site like Imgur. Once you're using Advanced Capes Mod, you can set your cape by pressing the C key and adding the URL of your cape.

A popular mod for getting capes is Advanced Capes Mod, which you can install as long as you have Minecraft Forge.

It's still worth a shot to check out these mods:

Technically you can get all kinds of capes using Minecraft mods, but other players won't see them unless they're using the same mod as you. The only way to get new capes in the Java version of Minecraft is to use a mod.

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