diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4c14fa8..3b04961 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ An ARTEMiS frontend.
 # **WARNING: Back up your database**
 I am not responsible for misconfigurations that lead to database issues. **You should back up your database before making any changes to it.**
 
+### **Important**: your default database encoding must be unicode
+You can change the encoding by running `ALTER DATABASE aime CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci;`
+
 ## Creating Database Tables
 Before running the database importer script, you must create the tables in your database. This can be done by running the server once with `AUTOMIGRATE` enabled ([see below](#runtime-variables)), or by running `npm run migrate` (make sure you have run `npm i` first and have the [`DATABASE_URL`](#runtime-variables) environment variable set).
 
diff --git a/db-migrate.cjs b/db-migrate.cjs
index 3f1c666..1b589e2 100644
--- a/db-migrate.cjs
+++ b/db-migrate.cjs
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ const dbmigrate = DBMigrate.getInstance(true);
 
 if (process.argv[2] === 'up')
 	dbmigrate.up();
-else if (process.argv[2] == 'down')
+else if (process.argv[2] === 'down')
 	dbmigrate.down();
+else if (process.argv[2] === 'reset')
+	dbmigrate.reset();
 else
 	console.error('Unknown action', argv[2]);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8787f4c..3ee262a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
     "migrate:up": "dotenvx run -f .env.local -- node db-migrate.cjs up",
     "migrate": "npm run migrate:up",
     "migrate:down": "dotenvx run -f .env.local -- node db-migrate.cjs down",
+    "migrate:reset": "dotenvx run -f .env.local -- node db-migrate.cjs reset",
     "migrate:create": "dotenvx run -f .env.local -- db-migrate create",
     "db:export": "dotenvx run -f .env.local -- kysely-codegen --exclude-pattern cozynet* --exclude-pattern alembic_version --exclude-pattern actaeon_migrations --out-file src/types/db.d.ts && node process-db.js"
   },
diff --git a/scripts/README.md b/scripts/README.md
index 659db7c..b349d46 100644
--- a/scripts/README.md
+++ b/scripts/README.md
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ Usage: `py db-importer.py [options] <game> [game_options]`
 
 The database importer requires the `DATABASE_URL` environment variable to be set, which can be set in an `.env` file in the format `DATABASE_URL=mysql://user:pass@host:port/db_name` (see the `--env` option)
 
+### **Important**: your default database encoding must be unicode
+You can change the encoding by running `ALTER DATABASE aime CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci;`
+
 # **WARNING: Back up your database**
 I am not responsible for misconfigurations that lead to database issues. **You should back up your database before making any changes to it.**