The October research notes, source hierarchy and coverage map for the TKB UK field guide.
The October review
This edition adds a practical handbook across the core and specialist services, alongside the detailed reference and planning tools. The public UK JSON catalogue was retrieved on 17 October 2026. It contains 1,083 distinct records representing 847 base mission IDs; the difference includes variants. These figures describe the retrieved feed, not the number of calls available to one account or a guarantee that every special event appears in that feed.
- UK Lifeguard Stations were announced on 23 September 2026. Their operational chapter distinguishes the newer standalone service from older extension guidance.
- Hospital Management was announced on 30 September; an aircraft maximum-distance option followed on 15 October.
- July introduced mission-type range settings and a clearer parking-space overview.
- Older UK police carrier and welfare-training restrictions are superseded by later release notes.
Which reference should I use?
Use the handbook to learn a system and decide what to check next. Use the current catalogue to inspect published game fields and distinguish variants. Use the curated dossiers for interpreted capabilities, relationships, qualifications and planning models. The older curated dataset has 1,085 entries, including retained editorial records; it is not identical to the newer official feed.
A mission currently on your game screen is the final check before dispatch. A station or vehicle purchase screen is the final check before spending. Neither an older wiki nor a guide can turn a missing or unpublished rule into a confirmed fact. We keep the original field names where a reliable UK translation has not been established.
Coverage across the operation
The handbook follows the complete operational chain: generating a call, locating it, unlocking its requirements, providing available vehicles and qualified people, travelling, working the scene, transporting patients or prisoners, receiving them, and returning useful capacity to the network. The existing reference tools remain available for the detailed entity records.
- Core services: fire and rescue, ambulance and hospitals, police and custody.
- Specialist services: HART and critical care, Coastguard, lifeboats, lifeguards, Mountain Rescue, SAR, airport and airfield response, railway, land and marine EOD, public order, floods, rural fires, pods, trailers and recovery.
- Account systems: dispatch-centre coverage, POIs, ranges, recruitment, training, dispatch rules, expansions and readiness.
- Player operations: earnings, alliances, planned missions, events, Premium, coins, rewards, graphics, mobile settings and troubleshooting.
Known limits are part of a usable reference
The UK market check on 17 October 2026 found 120 numbered vehicle types, including Coastguard Drone Unit (117), Lifeguard Quadbike (118) and Lifeguard 4x4 (119). Their prices and explicitly displayed crew and training fields are now in the unit dossiers. Minimum crew for types 118 and 119 and their exact mission capability mappings remain unverified. See the field-level verification log for corrections and limitations.
Exact training duration, staffing minimum, vehicle substitution and extension availability must be checked on the relevant current UK screen when the cited evidence does not settle them. Generic help pages sometimes combine US, UK and Australian systems. We do not transfer a US prison, towing or wildfire rule to the UK merely because it appears in the same help centre.
Strategic examples are deliberately labelled recommendations. There is no verified universal station layout that maximises every account’s income. The useful measure is what your fleet completes under comparable conditions.
Check a claim without losing your place
Each handbook chapter lists its sources. Open a source in a new tab, confirm the version and date, and compare the exact field or variant. If an older explanation disagrees with a later UK announcement, prefer the later release for that changed behaviour. Use the evidence desk to report a reproducible correction, including the game version, mission ID or vehicle type, the visible value and the relevant screenshot.
The reading-progress control and Command Desk store information in your browser. They do not sign into MissionChief or synchronise your game account. The guide does not dispatch, buy vehicles, spend coins or send messages for you.
Sources and further reading
Latest editorial change: Added an answer-first summary, action checklist and related planning/reference link. Detailed source dates remain independent.
Official sources establish game rules; practical build orders and planning examples are TKB recommendations. Follow the UK game’s current requirement panel where a later update differs.