Rescue jobs, team ranks and the early dungeon route
Take jobs from the mailbox and Pelipper board, prepare for the right objective and follow the early story’s rescue chain.
Original Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team for Nintendo DS. First released in Japan on 17 November 2005; North America on 18 September 2006, Australia on 28 September 2006 and Europe on 10 November 2006. Red Rescue Team is the paired Game Boy Advance game. Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky have their own stories and rules.
Read and activate the job
Requests arrive in the base mailbox and on the bulletin board at Pelipper Post Office. Add a request to your Job List, then choose Take Job to make it active. Check the dungeon, destination floor and objective before departing. In a dungeon, Mission Objectives lets you review the active tasks.
Prepare for the request you accepted
A delivery job needs its requested item; a rescue needs you to reach the client; an escort needs you to keep the accompanying Pokémon safe. If several active jobs share a dungeon, compare their floors before deciding how far to go. Carry enough food and recovery for that journey, then complete each objective deliberately.
Your rank records completed rescue work
Jobs award rescue points that build the team’s cumulative rank. The original rank sequence and thresholds are shown below. Job difficulty and dungeon progress are separate from the name of your team rank; continue following story events when the next route has not opened.
| Rank | Total rescue points |
|---|---|
| Normal | Starting rank |
| Bronze | 50 |
| Silver | 500 |
| Gold | 1,500 |
| Platinum | 3,000 |
| Diamond | 7,500 |
| Lucario | 15,000 |
Follow the early story’s linked rescues
Open a destination below for its role in the first rescue chain. These summaries help with orientation; dungeon layouts change, and the current story briefing remains your guide to the next assignment.
Tiny Woods
Find Caterpie and learn to move, attack and reach a rescue client. This opening success gives the team its purpose.
Thunderwave Cave
Help the Magnemite and make a habit of checking the team’s supplies between assignments.
Mt. Steel
Rescue Diglett from Skarmory. After this story assignment, Wigglytuff’s Friend Areas become part of growing the team.
Sinister Woods
Look for Metapod and prepare for the Team Meanies confrontation. Read the current briefing before leaving.
Silent Chasm and Mt. Thunder
The next rescue chain expands the scale of the adventure. Longer journeys make food, recovery and move PP more significant.
Return with one useful lesson
After a trip, replace used supplies and keep the next objective in mind. If you failed, identify a specific cause: insufficient food, depleted moves, an exposed partner or a missed job requirement. Revisit the dungeon survival guide for the relevant rule before retrying. Later story and post-story dungeons add their own access conditions.
A request in the Job List still needs Take Job. Check both the active objective and the dungeon before leaving.