The History of Minecraft’s RAREST Capes

Anyone who has played minecraft long enough has probably seen another player wearing a cape at some point in the early days of the game especially the Java edition it was considered a rare distinction to have one as they easily set you apart from other players it got

To the point where capes were being sold on eBay for hundreds of dollars each to give you an idea of how rare they are out of at least 30 million minecraft accounts in the Java edition 40,000 of them have capes with the most common being the ones given out for attending

Minecon but if we exclude the minecon capes this number drops to just 2,000 accounts having a cape and out of these 2,000 only eight of them have personalized one-of-a-kind capes the rarest in the entire game how out of thirty million people how are these eight individuals capable of obtaining a

Cape that nobody else had each one has a unique story behind it ranging from hard work to pure luck to downright bizarre this is the history of Minecraft rarest capes without further ado let’s get started not the creator of Minecraft was well known for taking players suggestions and adding them into the

Game in the early days he would often ask his fans for ideas and if he liked one he considered adding it into Minecraft a player named mcclee suggested to knotch the idea of pigment humanoid versions of the default minecraft Pig knotch liked the idea so much that he created a special

One-of-a-kind cape for mcclee the bacon cape after many others in the Minecraft community saw that mclee had been given a personalized cape they began begging knotch for a special cape of their own it became a problem with players responding the many of noxious tweets asking for capes even if the tweet was

Unrelated to minecraft realizing that the begging from the fans would be non-stop knotch decided to take away the bacon cape not long after it was given in order to get the fans to stop asking this means that mcclee is the only person in today’s list to have their

Personalised cape taken away from them despite not doing this it wouldn’t take long for him to change his mind and give a cape to others in early 2011 minecraft was approaching 1 million total game sales to celebrate this milestone minecraft developer Jeb asked knotch for permission to make a special cape for

Whoever was the lucky buyer of the one millionth copy of the game not approved of the idea and gave Jeb permission to design the cape on January 12 2011 minecraft user Akron man Juan managed to purchase the millionth copy and received a personalized email congratulating him for his lucky achievement in game the

Cape has a gold star on it with a royal purple background he still has it to this day despite having multiple people offer him upwards of thousands of dollars for his minecraft account to this day it is considered one of the most valuable accounts in Minecraft history Danny b-style

Also known as Danny buranovskiye in real life is a video game music composer that’s worked on many titles throughout his career back in 2011 since notch was a fan of his work he gave him his own personalized cape after a few years Danny stopped playing Minecraft as much and normally that’s where the

Explanation ends but Danny B style is one of the few people on this list to have his account hacked into a hacker took control of his account in 2015 thanks to a database leak and a minecraft player named Trey dude purchased the account for $300 cash after realizing that the account was

Going to be rightfully taken away from him by Mojang he changed the accounts name to Trey is god in order to leave a mark on the account while Danny has controlled the account these days and still has his cape it was an interesting turn of events for the composer and his

Cape the story behind this cape is easily the most bizarre in today’s video minecraft has a title screen splash that changes every time you load up the game these phrases would range from funny to bizarre well one of these splashes said the phrase bring me rate cokes rate cokes is a European television

Personality that used to host a show called MTV’s most-wanted back in the mid 90s notch was a big fan of this show growing up and claims that rate cokes personality helped shape his own sense of humor not put in the phrase bring me rake hoax as a joke but to a Minecraft

Player named Julian Clarke this was not a joke Julian was actually the real-life godson of rake hoax and after seeing the title splash with his name contacted his godfather immediately Rae got a big kick out of being included in Minecraft somehow and agreed to pose in a photo

With Julian Julian posted the ransom photo to the Minecraft subreddit telling knotch that he had kidnapped rake hoax and that he would hand him over to notch in exchange for a personalized cape in Minecraft knotch found the entire incident hilarious and decided to give Julian a cake

The Cape was olive green with a picture of a snowman on the back when asked why it had a snowman on it not Slytherin firmed that it was a well yeah billionaire humor everybody I just want to say if you’re enjoying this video so far consider subscribing to the channel

Many of you watching haven’t actually hit that button yet but no pressure no pressure let’s continue in September of 2013 the Mojang team was in Tokyo for Minecraft related business and a Minecraft er named cheap-shot was of great assistance to them during this trip upon logging into minecraft about a

Week later he noticed that he had been given a translator cape now normally minecraft gives these capes out to people who did translations for Minecraft as there are 96 of these capes in existence but upon closer inspection he found that the cape had a Japanese flag hidden underneath it no other

Translator cape had this making his cape one of a kind talk about the ultimate souvenir some similar capes were given out a few years later to Chinese translators and while they aren’t one-of-a-kind I wanted to at least mention them since there’s only three of them which is still incredibly rare on

June 4th 2015 Pao up craft Lawrence and sjj helped out greatly with the Chinese Minecraft translations there has been a huge push for Minecraft to be successful in China so the Minecraft team appreciated all of their hard work the capes were similar to cheap shot scape but with a Chinese

Flag on the reverse instead of a Japanese one just goes to show you that when it comes to capes hard work can certainly pay off just like it did for the next player on our list long time Java Edition minecraft players might recognize the name mr. messiah he was

Responsible for creating the better lighting mod back as early as 2010 in 2011 Mojang wanted to include his mod in the base version of Minecraft so after meeting with him they told him that they wanted to thank him by giving him a personalized cape well for unknown reasons it took Mojang for

Years to actually add the Cape to his account meaning out of all the people on today’s list he had to wait the longest for his Messiah would confirm in a reddit message the reason for him having a cape while the designer is unknown he believed that it was Jeb drunkest is

Best known as a Minecraft mater who has worked on several projects such as the chisel mod and Twilight forest well one week in 2016 while working on his chisel mod he tried recreating the default prismarine texture from scratch he didn’t like using Mojang’s textures and didn’t want to for licensing reasons

Jeb saw his project on Twitter and decided to gift him a special prism erine cape for his efforts it turns out that Jeb had already created the cape previously but didn’t have an owner for it it just so happened that drunkest was the right man in the right place at the

Right time and he has the only prisoner in cape in the game if you’ve ever visited the cursed lands known as the Minecraft subreddit you’ve probably seen at least one message by user Billy Kay back in 2015 he posted a suggestion that boats should be replaced by turtles and

That their shells could be used as helmets if they were killed which gained some traction on the subreddit but ever since that post he would constantly talk about his love for turtles to the point where it actually became a meme when turtles finally were added to Minecraft during the update aquatic

Billy was surprised to find out that not only was his turtle shell helmet idea actually added but a turtle cape had been given to him by Jeb out of the blue just goes to show you that if you ask about something long enough you just might receive but with capes potentially

Becoming a microtransaction in Minecraft future the days of rare capes are likely over but it’s always a pleasant surprise to see someone wearing a legitimate one in the Java edition these eight players all wore a piece of Minecraft history on their backs who knew that digital rectangles would

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