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An independent field guide

TF3 Fieldnotes is an independent multilingual fan publication about Transport Fever 3. It is not operated or endorsed by Urban Games or Paradox Interactive. We help new players and returning Transport Fever 2 players find documented answers about buying the game, cargo, signals and mods. Start with a specific question about cargo, signals, mods or your first network.

Languages and editorial checks

Published reading editions are English and German. The German text began as a machine translation and was edited with AI assistance using the same sources and uncertainty boundaries as the English text. This is not a native-speaker review or a new gameplay test. Model names and official source titles may retain their original spelling.

What the labels mean

Official information is a concise summary linked to a publisher or developer source. Editorial perspective is our interpretation or a suggested way to investigate a question. Some pages now add dated official support notes and individual player reports. Community posts are individual reports, not proof of a general issue or fix. We have not independently played, reproduced issues or benchmarked the game.

How the decision aids are made

These articles were researched and drafted with AI assistance. Our added material is the order of checks, comparisons between choices and clearly marked worked examples. For example, the cargo guide separates revenue from operating costs, and the town guide distinguishes the weakest development rating from missing supplies. These are reasoning aids built from the linked documentation, not observations from a play session. Invented numbers in a worked example are labelled as such and do not describe game balance. Publication does not imply a completed human fact-check or native-language review.

Images and diagrams

The homepage and article thumbnails use official Transport Fever 3 promotional artwork, credited to Urban Games, to illustrate our independent coverage. They are not screenshots captured by this publication. A small number of articles show illustrations that were recreated with AI assistance from publicly available community gameplay video; each is labelled in its caption and is not an in-game screenshot. The rail and cargo diagrams remain original conceptual drawings, not verified construction blueprints.

Visual sources

Promotional artwork is sourced from the official Transport Fever 3 website: the homepage transport artwork and a selection of official screenshots showing railways, roads, towns, industrial facilities, shipping and aviation. Each article and section has its own assigned image. Illustrations recreated from community gameplay footage are AI-generated and labelled in the figure caption. © Urban Games. The artwork is used to identify and discuss the game; this publication is independent and is not endorsed by its creators. We do not claim an unrestricted license to redistribute these images.

Updates and corrections

The first edition was published in September 2026. An article’s Updated date records an editorial change; it is not a claim that every feature was tested on that date. Source-check dates and version limits are stated separately. Support pages and patch branches can change after a check, so use the linked official page for the current status. Corrections should identify the affected article, the claim and a supporting source.

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