前匹兹堡钢人队教练 Mike Tomlin 展示他建造了 12 年的《我的世界》城市
迈克·汤姆林花了12年时间在《我的世界》中建造了一座城市
前匹兹堡钢人队教练 Mike Tomlin 首次公开展示他在《我的世界》中建造了 12 年的城市，19 分钟导览视频吸引 2 万同时在线观众，累计观看超 26.4 万次。他自孩子年幼时开始游玩，在创造模式中逐步搭建街区与社区，并称后续还会介绍更多区域。
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Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city. Over 19 minutes, he showed it off to the world
Mike Tomlin says his Minecraft passion started small before his city began to grow. “Of course, over the course of 12 years, you start developing neighborhoods and communities and so forth," he said.Jamie Squire / Getty Images
By Matt Moret
Oct. 1, 2026 Updated
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One does not simply walk into Tomlinburgh. No, you need an invitation. And a guide. Who better than the man who laid every block himself?
Following weeks of anticipation, former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin welcomed the masses into his sprawling Minecraft world Wednesday night. The Super Bowl-winning coach first mentioned the project during an interview with Craig Melvin on the “Today” show on Sept. 8, immediately sparking online demands that he open the gates.
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“I started playing Minecraft, man, when my kids were young,” Tomlin said. “I have a Minecraft city in creative that I’ve been working on for like 12 years.”
Tomlin went on to explain that he began playing the game as a way to connect with his kids and unwind with “mindless entertainment.” He teased that he might give a peek inside. Then, his son Dino spent the next three weeks hyping a reveal on X, with every tweet composed in all caps.
“HE WANTS ME TO RECORD IT AND PUT IT ON YOUTUBE… WE GOTTA BREAK IT INTO SECTIONS THOUGH OR THE VIDEO WOULD BE 2 HOURS LONG…,” the younger Tomlin wrote after the interview aired. “CHAT IS THAT WHAT WE WANT? IM NOT GONNA RECORD AND EDIT IF THE STREETS DONT WANT IT… cant just release the copy of the world cuz there’s s— in there.”
That’s how 20,000 concurrent viewers ended up watching a 19-minute video of Tomlin, controller in hand, touring virtual high-rises and rooftop bars on Wednesday. The video, as of late Wednesday evening, had garnered more than 264,000 views.
“I kind of wanted densely populated buildings and so forth, so I started small,” Tomlin said as his first-person character levitated over a vast pixel landscape with a massive bay at the center. “Of course, over the course of 12 years, you start developing neighborhoods and communities and so forth.”
Tomlin said he’d get into those developments in another episode. Wednesday’s debut began with the building that started it all: a boutique hotel overlooking a bay millions of times bluer than any of Pittsburgh’s three rivers.
We should probably disclose here that “Tomlinburgh” is not an official moniker, but we are offering it, free of charge, for consideration by the city council.
Upon entering the hotel, Tomlin welcomed viewers into an area he called his “executive spa.” It included therapy rooms. Crossing the lobby, Tomlin showed off a “multi-purpose conference room.” It was massive. And mostly empty beyond some decorative plants. This was a recurring theme.
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Minecraft doesn’t have much “furniture,” per se. Instead, Tomlin relied on the mind’s eye. Imagine tables full of built-in power outlets. Perhaps an overhead projector in the corner. Minor executives with fake titles staring dead-eyed into their laptops. The multi-purpose conference room of your dreams — or, apparently, Tomlin’s.
Still, the room lent a view into Tomlin’s design philosophy. The ceiling was made of glass, and Tomlin explained how integral lighting was to his creative process. Minecraft had limited lighting options when he began his project over a decade ago, he explained, so he turned to glow blocks, torches, floor-to-ceiling windows and vast skylights to illuminate his spaces. He was chasing realism in all facets of his art.
“I was always really conscious of appropriate amenities,” Tomlin explained. “You’ll find, you know, an appropriate number of public restrooms and stuff throughout all my public facilities. Not anything over the top in terms of detail: sink areas, stalls, etc. It was important that I represented that.”
Tomlin walked viewers through a restaurant space that was, again, mostly empty, yet beautiful in its brutalist minimalism. Downstairs, viewers visited his speakeasy, equipped with a bar and an illuminated window into the depths of a large pool outside. It included an employee work area and kitchen because, as Tomlin said, it was “appropriate.”
Here, Tomlin paused to explain his vision for the new series of travelogues.
“In this episode, I wanted to talk about residential housing, man. I was really into the urban architecture. High-rise apartment buildings, etc.,” he said before unveiling a building themed around centralized aquariums. “… I did it because it was across the street from the aquarium I built in the city. I’ll give you a tour of this aquarium at some point. It is crazy. You’ll love it.”
“The crazy part is how much time it took you to get that water situated, though,” Dino chimed in.
“That was a nightmare,” Tomlin replied with a chuckle.
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Inside the building, viewers saw one of the penthouse bedrooms Tomlin meticulously crafted, cube by cube. The rooms were complete with beds, fireplaces and strange paintings that Tomlin later said he disliked, but which gave the spaces an element of interior design.
“For whatever reason, I always got fixated on providing details in bedrooms. I would build out bedrooms and put the interior decorating, etc., probably more so than any other component of the residences,” he said.
Tomlin showed off a few more high-rise buildings with balconies and one with his favorite rooftop spot, which he seemed proud of. It all overlooked landscapes full of terraformed canyons, rivers and the remnants of mountains Tomlin blew apart.
“I’d go places and I’d see things and buildings, and I’d get inspired. I’d go home and I’d work on it,” he said.
Tomlin wrapped the tour with teases of more wonders to come.
“I’ll come back at you, looking at various components of town. In the next episode, we’ll take a look at something that I think you’re going to find interesting — something that’s really cool. So stay with us.”
How good is Mike Tomlin at Minecraft? A brief review
Tomlin won’t be competing in any Minecraft Championships anytime soon, but his approach to building felt just as meticulous as a comprehensive game plan.
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From deciding to build his metropolis around a body of water to the painstaking room detail in some of his high-rises, I wonder how much time in-season Tomlin spent polishing off buildings in between late night and early mornings at the Steelers’ facility.
It’s certainly not a basic build either; he mixed multiple blocks to avoid a monochrome pattern, and picked high-contrast pairings like sandstone and spruce wood or brick and terracotta. Bonus points are due for him adapting to the newer updates of the game — one of the buildings features some of the newer coral, campfire and lantern blocks, and you can see his block palette adapting as the years go on.
Tomlin’s news conferences are the stuff of legend, but it’s still surreal to hear that booming voice explain the need for glowstones in his condos. The entire episode is vintage Tomlin, right down to him explaining the layout of the city the same way he’d break down a defense on tap. — Jeremy Guerin
Matt Moret is a Staff Editor for The Athletic's news team. Prior to joining The Athletic, he worked as the statewide morning news editor for Colorado Public Radio and Denverite. He was also a digital editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He's originally from the Philadelphia area.
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