{"id":163979,"date":"2021-03-04T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=163979"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:11:59","slug":"how-to-get-a-cape-in-minecraft-in-3-simple-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-get-a-cape-in-minecraft-in-3-simple-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get a Cape in Minecraft in 3 Simple Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have you seen your friends running with a cloth behind their backs and wondered <\/span><b>how to get a cape in <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/minecraft.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Minecraft<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">? The chances are that they received it as a prize from the Mojang team. However, there are some mod developers who have taken it into their hands to create customized capes that you can use.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How to Get a Cape in Minecraft<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, the only way to get a cape in Minecraft is to install a utility software program or mod. You should keep in mind that other players must run the same mod to be able to see your cape. Can you imagine how funny you must look sporting an item that no one else can witness?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Step 1: Install Optifine<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can use any Minecraft mod program, but we recommend <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/optifine-for-minecraft.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Optifine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that\u2019s usually used to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/minecraft.en.softonic.com\/articles\/how-to-install-shaders-for-minecraft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">install shaders<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the game. All you need to do is download the installation file and let the wizard help you with the setup. Remember to move it to your Minecraft folder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163982\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/Optifine-in-Minecraft_l7dpbz.jpg\" width=\"1087\" height=\"585\"><\/p>\n<h3><b>Step 2: Download a cape mod<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next up, you\u2019ll need to find a cape mod that you like. There are several available on the internet, such as <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.9minecraft.net\/advanced-capes-mod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Advanced Capes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. You\u2019ll need to extract the zip file to your mods folder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163983\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/Advanced-Capes-Mod_rbc1c0.jpg\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\"><\/p>\n<h3><b>Step 3: Run around with your cape<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you run your&nbsp; Minecraft launcher, remember to switch to Optifine or the mod program you selected. As soon as you\u2019re in the game, you can start using the new capes you downloaded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163984\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/image\/upload\/v1614868694\/wgaupdb34pyz_fo5940.png\" width=\"842\" height=\"595\"><\/p>\n<h3><b>It\u2019s a bird, it\u2019s a plane&#8230;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ok, so this method of getting a cape in Minecraft isn\u2019t ideal, but it\u2019s the best solution available at this point in time. We\u2019ll have to wait until the developer introduces capes in the same way it did banners not so long ago.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen your friends running with a cloth behind their backs and wondered how to get a cape in Minecraft? The chances are that they received it as a prize from the Mojang team. However, there are some mod developers who have taken it into their hands to create customized capes that you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-get-a-cape-in-minecraft-in-3-simple-steps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Get a Cape in Minecraft in 3 Simple Steps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":181602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2328],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-163979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionminecraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325016,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163979\/revisions\/325016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163979"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=163979"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=163979"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=163979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}