Rotten food will eventually have flies start to buzz around it. Fewer at first and then more the worse it gets. It will slightly rot before any flies appear but is still safe to eat then.
For the stats that means that the base stat has either been increased or decreased artificially/temporarily for some reason. Without a screenshot or more info we couldn't tell you why though.
I think being able to enter the wilderness would be awesome. Just a lot of wild creatures, like you said, very few items you can collect, but a good source of food, water, training your weapon skills, etc. And maybe some secret things to discover if you're lucky.
I also agree with everyone about multiple continents. The belt of levitation is guaranteed, yes, but I think most people who just play the game without visiting the forums or Wiki will have a hard time discovering it. So I think there should be one larger continent with Attnam and most of the worlds. Then a few smaller continents with various ways of getting there. Maybe the belt can only take you a few tiles over the ocean and if the continent is too far away it can't take you there and you have to use a portal or ship instead.
I feel like the software is still too tied to the old phpBB software it was based on a long, long time ago.
For example some of the settings are just strange. "Always attach my signature" - yes or no. Did people actually complain about not being able to disable their signature for certain posts?
Anyways I'm trying to rethink the whole website just to make it easier to discuss things without being stuck to the old idea of "forums" and without it being cluttered with things nobody uses.
Also just making small improvements, for example, you'll notice a lot of the URLs don't have integer IDs anymore
I love when I get in the mood to work on one of my projects. 25 commits to Github so far today. Overall not huge changes but the code is actually so much cleaner and better organized in some ways.
I upgraded the forum software again. It's built on top of the Laravel Framework which recently released version 5. The upgrade from 4 to 5 wasn't too complex but let me know if you experience any issues.
If posting doesn't work, email me at capristo@attnam.com