Dungeon Master Forum

activate means increase.
deactivate means decrease.
but what is the best way to reset a counter ?

There's an ACTION that can give a counter a specific value. Simply activate an ACTION object that has the counter set action (have a look the coin counter in the advanced example dungeon which does exactly this).

BTW, there's no way to *reset* a counter, just *set* it to a specific value. Counters have no "memory" of what values they used to have.

additional note:
If you activate the action-tile COUNTER_SET all counters in the whole dungeon will be set to your value.
If you just want one specific counter to be set you have to make a Clone and give it a unique name like COUNTER_COINTRAP or whatever...

I believe you can also use the counter ref, or is that only to read a counters current value?

works fine, i just remembered that 0 is the value that triggers the counter, not the count value... activate means decrease in fact !