Big News
Posted by Owner-Aspen on 2 Nov 2025, 4:20 pm
Hello everyone! We have some rather big news today concerning the future of Furvilla.
Beginning this coming January, Furvilla will move to a completely free-to-play, ad-free model.
What does this mean? Let’s break it down. As you can see, this is a lot of info, please read carefully.
Furdollars, aka FD
- Beginning December 31st at 11:59pm, players will no longer be able to purchase premium currency, known as Furdollars.
- Furdollars will still be usable permanently, but will now be earnable through regular gameplay.
- Players will be able to exchange Furdollars for Furcoins and vice versa via the Fair Exchange, subject to an exchange fee for FC to FD conversion.
Festivals and Special Events
Beginning in 2027, festivals will no longer be supported.
- All festivals will continue to be supported throughout 2026, to allow players to experience them one last time.
- Retired festival items will be available through normal gameplay, with a philosophy of these items being more difficult to obtain than they originally were in their respective festivals.
- Shamrocks will continue to drop every March. The last new Shamrock Hunt openable will be released in March 2026.
- All remaining Lunar New Year animals and red envelopes will continue to be released yearly until all animals are represented.
- After 2025, Black Jade Week will no longer occur. No physical merchandise giveaways or sales will happen for Black Jade Week this year. Your pal, “Buck” will offer in-game exclusive wares through a special explore event as in the past. “Buck” will offer his goods through other gameplay methods in the future.
- We will be working to include select aspects from festivals into normal gameplay. More information will be available about this at a later time.
Monthlies and the Feast
Beginning in January, 2027, new monthly items will no longer be supported. This includes new Furdollar Emporium animals and new Feast prizes.
- Beginning in 2027, the Feast’s prize pool will be re-worked to include re-releases of older Feast animals and buttons.
- We will continue a monthly re-release schedule of all Furdollar Emporium animals until each animal has been re-released. At that time, re-releases will cease.
Future Site Content and Support
- While no further site content is promised after 2026, we may commission our artists for more content from time to time.
- We do have a sizable backlog of un-released content, which will be released through various permanent site features.
- Moderators will still be on hand.
- Bugs will still be monitored and fixed as needed.
Merchandise
- If Furvilla has brought you joy in the past several years, and you would like to contribute to its future, please consider purchasing something from our merch shop.
- We are currently working on releasing special Fan Packs to our shop’s stock. Please note, we can only ship these Fan Packs to the USA. We realize this is not ideal for our valued players worldwide, but we appreciate your understanding. Please note, shipping costs reflect USPS Priority Mail flat rates. These packs will be released on November 8th, 2025, and are in limited supply.
- Beginning in January, 2026, any remaining merchandise will be sold through our merchandise partner’s shop. The merch link above will be changed to reflect the new link.
- Beginning January 1st, 2026, it will no longer be possible to earn the Super Shopper trophy.
- Individual stickers will no longer be available after January 1st. If you see one that you like that is still in stock, this is the time to purchase it.
- Players will not be able to begin a Certified Badge streak after December 31st, 2025. Any player who starts before that time will have a chance to complete their streak and claim the badge, but if the streak is lost the badge is forfeit. The badge will be sold through our merchandise partner’s shop until it sells out.
Any other changes will be communicated through the news and changelog as necessary.
Reason for the Changes
The above sure seems like a lot, eh?
We are not immune to the challenges the world has brought over the last several years, though we have always done our best to make Furvilla the best we could. We are, however, at the breaking point of what we are able and willing to provide with our time, financially and mentally. Quinn and I discussed at length for many months on whether or not we would be able to keep Furvilla up and running, or if we even wanted to do so.
By removing premium currency and festivals all together, we feel more free to take a step back when needed, and not be obligated to make sure a certain amount of content is released.
Furvilla is a wonderful place full of amazing people. While we are not the creators of this place, we are its stewards. As such, it has always been the goal of Quinn and myself to provide a comfy and safe environment for our players to have fun, not to make money. Both of us have made dear friends here, as I know many of you have. We deeply love Furvilla and what it means to our small community.
So many people have given freely of themselves to help make Furvilla what it is. There is no way that we could have come as far as we have without the efforts of each member of our team, previous or present. Furvilla is the result of the love of each person who has moderated, created art, wrote an explore event or item descriptions, answered support e-mails, fixed bugs, made contests, and played the game. I cannot express how thankful I am to each person who has put their mark here, including you.
We will continue to support the server and provide sporadic content for as long as we are able. Nothing would bring us more joy than to have you come back and check on your villagers in the future… unless you stick around and keep playing for free? I know I will.
Other News
Several more items are now available in the Clawtooth Bazaar. We still have a lot more content to be released though this feature, and will continue to update sporadically. Please make sure to check the vendors often, as new content will not always be announced.
Bear and Cat are friends.
Finally, we would like to announce the addition of a “feed all” button for the Feast. After feeding your selected villager for the monthly feast, you may visit the main Feast page to feed all unexpired food to that villager.
We have also fixed some bugs with the “donate all candy” button. Please note, this button will now donate all candy, including your chocolate bars. Use with caution.
Thank you for playing Furvilla!
- Quinn & Aspen of Furvilla -
Quinn will do his best to answer any concerns or questions in this news post's thread. Please be kind, as he is a good squirrel.
There was an earlier comment that said the new owners treated FV like a personal playground and yeah, I agree.
We got the addition of Clawtooth, which was weird and didn't really fit the tone of the site except that one of the owners is big into Lion King. A lot of the events involved the admin self inserts. We got admin self insert items. Random encounters included the admin self inserts. It really felt like the owners just wanted to get their OCs some air time and not really expand on the lore that already existed. And then events just kinda. Stagnated. Nothing really new and exciting, just monthly releases, same old festivals with nothing new, rinse, repeat.
The post kinda reads as "we tried nothing and we're out of ideas" which is a shame because this community has crazy amounts of creativity that could be harnessed and some fun lore that could be expanded upon.
Polymathema I was honestly wondering the same thing regarding festival operation. Or, if nothing else, just set dates for fest, an even copy-pasta style announcement for the news, then bam. I think it really comes down to them just. Not wanting or having time to do it; I’m honestly not 100%. Because auto-fest access with just a small feedback thread like before doesn’t seem like too much of a challenge.
Why don't you guys just set up new content like flight rising does and have a seasonal contest to add items, skins, etc to the site?
I dropped out of playing the game awhile ago, and I did see this day coming. But it was fun while it lasted. I enjoyed making painties of my OCs and species, and editing the bases. Maybe I will poke around for a little while longer, just for the fun of it. I've been here since the beginning, so it's bittersweet.. but I thank you staff for all you did for the site.
Somehow caught wind of what was happening and.. oh wow. This site was once a big part of my life, and practically shaped me as an artist. I'm a little sad to see what's happening. I am a little concerned that it sounds like festivals will only be happening one more time- I agree with others that reruns of festivals should continue, otherwise it seems the site will fully die off.
I may not return to this site again, but the memories I've made here are dear to me. Thank you for maintaining this site for so long and being the safe space of so many people.
If I may ask some general questions:
- Why not set the festivals to cycle manually in coming years like Flight Rising does, and rerelease all associated content?
- Will ALL battlegrounds be available all the time now, including ones like the Wolves, Fest grounds, etc?
- Will festival mechanics be implemented similar to the serpents’ pot & general tourney onsite?
- Will there be an easier navigation system than current?
- What’s the expected FD:FC rate? I think current is ~1000
Paintie bases for the new Bazaar stickers have still not been added :(
Toxtricity
Same here I'm worried about whats to come of Furvilla, this site means a lot to me. one of my fave sites and a site I was BETA for and the very first game I was BETA for. fun times and it holds me dearly. Like you I am very much worried, won't quit sticking to the end but man this is hard to take in.
Oh it's true this time. This site meant a lot to me years ago, I still recognize people I've talked to and have seen around here on Toyhou.se sometimes and it gives me a bit of nostalgia.
I'm still very worried about the future of furvilla. i'm not trying to be a naysayer, and I'm not like, quitting or anything drastic, I'm gonna ride this game out to the end, but this is one of my favourite games of all time, and man I am worried about the lack of future (recurring) events most of all. even ichumon still does it's yearly events and it's had very little changes in the past decade and still has a very dedicated fan base.