This cape was given out to all players who have bought Minecraft before December 1, 2020 and migrated their Mojang or legacy account to a Microsoft account, starting on July 9, 2021. The official cape design was released by Ined on Twitter on June 30, 2021. Before the cape's release, text was found in language files that read "And... a special Veteran Cape for each year you've played Java Edition!" Later on, images were found on the support page with similar text. It is unknown why this text ex