

Only a few thousand players around the world have a MINECON cape.
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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.

The rest cannot be obtained by players through any in-game means and are therefore considerably rarer. The only capes that can be obtained on one's own, so far, in Java Edition are the migrator cape, which comes from migrating a Mojang account to a Microsoft account, and the vanilla cape, which comes from owning both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition in the same Microsoft account prior to June 6, 2022.
