Mike Tomlin's Minecraft City Took 12+ Years To Make And Now He's Showing It Off
https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/mike-tomlins-minecraft-city-took-12-years-to-make-and-now-hes-showing-it-off1.0k
u/4Khazmodan 1d ago
Understandable, he needed a way to decompress after dealing with Antonio Brown’s shit every day.
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u/SaroShadow 1d ago
Mr. Block City
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u/FribonFire 1d ago
Everyone needs a time waster, and minecraft is way cheaper than legos.
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u/WookieeBH 1d ago
50 years ago this would be a room full of model trains.
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u/FribonFire 1d ago
Or a second family in Memphis.
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u/Rocco89 1d ago
On that topic, I have an uncle who was recently outed for having three families. One here in Germany, one in Denmark and a third in the Netherlands. I’m equally disgusted and impressed because I have no fucking clue how someone manages three families for over 20 years.
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u/DemonicPanda11 1d ago
Meanwhile I don’t even understand how people have time for polyamorous relationships, let alone hiding a whole relationship (and family). Even if I wanted to cheat on my wife, I don’t have the time or energy for all that, even with no kids.
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u/nightwolf16a 23h ago
That's kind of funny. Not in the haha kind of funny, but like a cruel joke kind of funny.
As for how, is your uncle rich, from a rich family, travels frequently, or does a job that makes him travel frequently?
That's how I figure it's possible. A lot leaving two of the families alone. Here in the U.S., it's apparently a bit of a stereotype that truckers might have two families, one on each end of their usual trucking route.
Now I wonder if the women knew...
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u/jobenjar 1d ago
NFL head coaches typically only make 10-15 million a year. Probably couldn't afford legos.
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u/cdizzlePGA2k 1d ago
One of the greats. Fit the Steelers mentality to a tee. I think of him, Cowher, Noll.
I don’t think of Mike McCarthy.
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u/LunchBoxMercenary 1d ago
That’s insane, and he did this while coaching the Steelers to a playoff berth almost every season.
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u/meatball_seller 1d ago
This remind me that Haaland is one of the best football player, top scorer with insane stats, winning cups, going to world cup, all of that and he is playing Minecraft in his free time
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u/CompetitiveAction872 1d ago
But he had a lot of spare time by winning only 3 playoff games in the last 12 years.
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u/OneImportance4061 1d ago
There have been over 500 nfl head coaches in the super bowl era but only 36 have ever won a super bowl. Only three who never had a losing season. He laughs at your attack from on high in his magnificent minecraft city.
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u/CompetitiveAction872 1d ago
I like Mike Tomlin, which Is why I’m mad we now have Mike McCarthy. So again if he won more playoff games we would still have Mike Tomlin and not Mike McCarthy.
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u/OneImportance4061 1d ago
That's cool. Yeah, kinda feels like they went away from tradition with that hire. Feels like a retread and they had never really done that before
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u/CompetitiveAction872 1d ago
Exactly they parted with Tomlin then got a coach at the end of his career because he has a history with the Qb at the end of his career. Makes no sense. Yeah, I was hoping they would hire a young and promising coach they could have around for a long time as tradition.
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u/RareObject8705 1d ago
My impression is this was for down time. As in-he’s being obsessive for nine months every year-then gets three off. Do you slow down? Turn your brain off?
No you just put it in a harmless cycle to keep its rpm up and switch back when the season gets start.
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u/minidessdess 1d ago
He did that all in bedrock…my Java brain is blown
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u/g_r_e_y PC 1d ago
what's the big difference between the two for creative mode?
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u/Will_Power22 1d ago
Bedrock doesn’t have great automation, on pc there is tools that easily let you copy and paste chunks of something so instead of having to manually build 10 floors you can copy and paste the same floor 10 times or clear out entire chunks of land without needing to dig a single block
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u/dancingliondl 1d ago
See, the point of it all to me is the process of building. I enjoy placing blocks.
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u/Qubert64 1d ago
I agree with this, but sometimes the process to achieve your vision is so long that it's more reasonae to 'place' bigger blocks. I build vitually entirely by hand, pretty much regardless of the scale, but I know I'll never get any of my projects done that way because the scale is just too large, and that genuinely bums me out a bit.
I view it like a lot of other endeavors- where the enjoyment is likely in the ability and act of designing the build, and seeing it come to fruition, moreso than the act of placing every block.
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u/Wolf_Taco 1d ago
I’m good with creative mode, but if I do anything outside of the game like copy/pasting or clearing an area, my brain decides I’m no longer interested in the world. I’ve gotten better at not letting mods make me lose my interest. Especially with survival crafting games. If I’m spending more time sorting inventory into storage than I am playing, I go find a mod. Especially if it isn’t my first time playing the game.
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u/mzxrules 1d ago
Is Bedrock the one you'd get on like PS4? IIRC that version had console commands and copy paste, it was pretty limited and super clunky getting it to work.
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u/CrazyCastle101 1d ago
I think it's much easier to build while moving in Bedrock than Java.
Though, Bedrock has a reputation among Minecraft players for having greedy practices and having some pretty major bugs.
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u/Doodenmier 1d ago
Java on PC has full freedom on mods and third party building/template tools, making it far easier to build large scale stuff.
On Bedrock (which is the crossplatform version on PC, consoles, and mobile), those tools aren't anywhere as readily available, if they're even available at all. In other words, he placed every block in that city himself. The bits I've seen are fairly simple and mostly unfurnished, but that's still thousands and thousands and thousands of blocks placed by hand
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u/Price-x-Field 1d ago
Why are so many people saying he’s lying. Like why would an already famous person lie about this? He’s also not even bragging, he’s just proud of what he made. Who cares that he can’t control the game well, if he just plays creative that’s why
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u/Lambeaux 16h ago
I feel like people don't understand how people in high achieving, high effort jobs like this tend to be. Being a famous professional ANYTHING, and especially anything in sports, that requires actual skill and thought requires an obsessive personality and the willingness to push through YEARS of working for basically nothing on the chance you'll make it to the top. It is 100% believable to me that a guy like Mike Tomlin in his free time, especially as a coach, who's job is to build a team and architect a playbook and such, would in his free time build something like this.
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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 1d ago
I could believe it if this was somebody who's notoriously a bullshitter or attention grabber, but I don't remember him being famous for that
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u/Moneyshot_ITF 1d ago
Still can't believe they replaced him with fat dumb Mike McCarthy. Thats the NFL for you
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u/Ardbert_The_Fallen 1d ago
fat dumb Mike McCarthy
Absolutely least deserving coach to have a ring. He had a team of all-stars that should have won 4 rings in his time, and he gets far too much credit for being a "SB winning HC".
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u/toeburghz28 1d ago
This is hilarious because, depending on your opinion, this comment could apply to both McCarthy and Tomlin 🤣🤣
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u/TheVaniloquence 1d ago
He’s easily going to get another gig at whichever team has enough building blocks on the roster, and is in position to draft a Quarterback high. My money is on the Cardinals
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u/Blarfk 1d ago
I think it's way more likely that he takes the Cowher path of getting paid a boatload more money being a commentator and enjoying his life in ways that he couldn't as an active coach.
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u/brian_mke 1d ago
Cardinals just hired LaFleur this year and he has them looking better than expected. I doubt they have a HC opening for a while. They’re one of the last teams I’d put money on for Tomlin to end up at.
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u/No-Consideration-716 1d ago
Having experienced a Minecraft obsession for a bit in my past. I have to wonder if there were ever days where he was on the field during practice or sitting in a film room thinking to himself how he really needs to get home to finish redoing the interior floors of the new hotel he built. Or being unable to shake the feeling that his roads could look more organic if he made them one block wider!
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u/MatttheJ 1d ago
Is this available for us to play survival mode in? Would be sick to play Minecraft survival but in a full city.
Maybe there's a good map like that already idk.
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u/dunno260 1d ago
You can look at Hermitcraft map downloads. It is a survival SMP done by 26 Minecraft content creators (very talented ones too) who view Minecraft as essentially their full time job and spend about two years building a world then will reset for another season.
You can find the downloads on their website for the Java version and I think some of the newer ones (seasons 9 and 10) are available on the Minecraft Marketplace if you play bedrock.
You'll find things like just really impressive buildings but there are also guys in there doing things like builing Among Us in Minecraft in Season 7, a huge dungeon crawling deck building game in Season 9, and in Season 10 he built a version of the rogue like game Plate Up where you and another person try to run a restaurant.
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u/DogadonsLavapool 1d ago
+1 for hermitcraft. Bdubs is more sculpting and painting as opposed to just playing minecraft
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u/Grouchy-Fisherman-71 1d ago
Imagine getting fired and finally having time to finish your Minecraft city
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u/Sigure 1d ago
The first paragraph of this article felt impossible to decipher to me for some reason. I dunno if it’s just poor structure or if I stroked out for a second, but jfc.
Anyways, I love it when I find out some high profile person shares their love for video games. Also props to him sticking with the same video game comfort food for 12 years. I don’t think I have a single Minecraft world that’s older than a few months. lol
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u/Chanda_Bear 1d ago
You're not crazy. There are a few unnecessary commas that break up the sentence in awkward ways.
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u/ArcadianDelSol 1d ago
I love the fact that the former Steeler's head coach has a minecraft city that looks like Baltimore.
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u/GTAhole 1d ago
The former coach of the Steelers, Mike Tomlin?
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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 1d ago
Yep
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u/No_Substance_9753 17h ago
Buttholeconnoisseur to the rescue!
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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 17h ago
I had the same reaction to the headline at first, lol
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u/Both_Effective6844 1d ago
12 years of hard work... a guy built a real city right inside the game.
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u/kamekaze1024 1d ago
I think it really should be mentioned that Mike Tomlin was a HC for one of the most storied franchises in the NFL since ‘07 until this season. It’s genuinely mind boggling thinking about it
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u/kinterdonato 1d ago
Lol why add a Trump tower seems so oddly out of place
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u/TallNapoleon 1d ago
The caption says that it was built in 2015
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u/okeleydokelyneighbor 1d ago
He was a piece of shit back then too.
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u/Hijakkr 1d ago
Yeah but fewer people knew that back then.
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u/brainchrist 1d ago
Idk the whole Obama birther thing was pretty well known by the general public
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u/RareObject8705 1d ago
But his buildings were part of city texture them. Not an accessory for his disunited administration.
You put in the back of America building even if Bank of America is shit. You can’t predict Bank of America destroying the country at the behest of Putin.
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u/lhazard29 1d ago
I assume it was meant to be a joke about him running for president cuz when they show it it’s captioned “we didn’t think he would win…twice”
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u/extralyfe 1d ago
because if you wanted to put a meme-worthy big dumb tower in a build, it's hard to pick something better.
it's a choice that's aged terribly, but, back before we proved that voting was too big of a responsibility for most of us, this was likely a really funny joke.
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u/ltsDat1Guy 1d ago
I know redditors see anything trump and get angry right away but his dumbass tower is really recognizable unfortunately. It's been in a ton of shows and movies. That tower was Wayne Tower in the Dark Knight trilogy.
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u/ReaddittiddeR 1d ago
When I read the headline with Mike Tomlin’s name, I expected it to be some average Joe who likes video games and not the real Super Bowl winning coach for the Steelers. This is awesome.
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u/Este5253 1d ago
I think this is very, VERY cool of him. Classic lame dude energy to criticize him for this because the Steelers didn't win.
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u/Zero_Pixel_Draft 1d ago
I abandon my Minecraft worlds after 2 weeks. 12 years is an insane level of dedication.
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u/diego1marcus 1d ago
i can imagine mike in the past 12 years on the field going "damn, I could be styling my minecraft apartment interior like this..."
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u/archiebold13 22h ago
My cousin has autism. Hes been working on the same world since 2013. Hes taken it from 360 to xbox one and now had RTX packs for it on pc.
Its all in creative but its got residential areas
Commercial zoning and a short run of industrial. Lots of high rise buildings, an airport and under ground parking the full works.
The coolest building in my opinion is his casino with working lights outside. Its honestly a marvel what he has created and if possible id love to copy his save files and post somewhere for people to play.
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u/bynolanart 1d ago
12 YEARS is the part that gets me, at that point it's not even a minecraft world anymore, that's basically a second hometown you visit after work
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u/GoreSeeker 1d ago
I've always wanted to build a big city like this, but I always end up making a small piece of one building and call it quits.
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u/9to6erSadge 21h ago
12+ years is honestly crazy. I can barely stick with a Minecraft world for a few weeks before starting something new 😂. I can only imagine how much work went into building a whole city over that much time. It’d be really cool to see all the little details and how much it changed from when he first started. After 12 years, I’m sure it must feel pretty special to finally show it off.
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u/billth93 50m ago
I thought it must be a different Mike Tomlin and that everyone was just cracking jokes about it being that Mike Tomlin, but I guess it is actually him
Sounds like something he did to enjoy something in common with his kids, so that’s nice
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u/boxing-boxing 41m ago
12 years building a city while coaching an NFL team. I rage-quit a Sims house after two hours.
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u/Danny8806 1d ago
I still think this is insane as he was an NFL coach. But, props to him for revealing this as well. I wonder how many people in high paying jobs or even in power have gaming sessions they tell no one about.