

The elytra texture now defaults to the cape texture if no custom texture is uploaded and the player owns a cape. The "cloaks" will no longer be called "cloaks" because they're not. Notch renamed the cloak to the cape, tweeting "We've reached a decision. Cape Skins for Minecraft PE - Pocket Edition on the App Store Notch announced a cloak design contest, for cloaks to be given out to MineCon attendees. This cape was given to mapmakers who have followed the criteria as listed here. As of January 20,, thirty-five users own this cape. This cape was given to the Bug Tracker Moderators on December 25,, and again from May 9, onwards. As of September 30,, it is no longer possible to earn this cape. Players who earned the Weekly First Place winner badge five times were given access to the cape. On November 7,, it was announced that there was a new Scrolls cape. This cape shares similar design style with cheapsh0t's Cape. The cape is identical to the Crowdin cape except for the pixelated Chinese flag on the reverse side of the cape. Originally, these capes were given out using a fair dice roll to 29 translators, with plans to give more capes to translators from time to time. This cape is given to translators on the Minecraft translation project at Crowdin. This cape was given to 'Drullkus' for recreating the prismarine block for use in his Chisel mod rather than modifying Mojang's texture. The designer of the cape is uncertain but MrMessiah believes it was Jeb. The cape was discussed in, however it wasn't granted until for unknown reasons. This cape was given to MrMessiah as a "thank you" for creating the BetterLight mod which is responsible for some of Minecraft's lighting and grass features. The cape is identical to the Crowdin cape except for the Japanese flag on the reverse side of the cape. In October, the user cheapsh0t received this cape for helping the Mojang team in Tokyo. This cape was made for akronman1, the lucky buyer of the 1,th copy of Minecraft. However, later it was removed from him due to other users asking Notch for personal capes. Miclee was given this cape by Notch, due to his idea of the Pigman.
