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.
if you question your ability to fund the site, why wont you open a donation pool? if you question your ability to code, why are you not taking volunteers? if you feel burnt out as owners, why wont you sell?
You couldn't be bothered to put in the time, love, energy, PROGRAMMING or even tweak the site for QOL updates - things that, all considered, should be easy.
Instead you've stripped away everything still possibly enjoyable (festivals, rotations NEW ITEMS), pretty much said "screw you guys, we don't want your money, why are you wasting time here?" and made everything free. Just so you'd have "more time" to do other things, rather than legitimately work on the website you begged to have pried from someone else's hands.
The site is dead.
Pull the plug.
Dead site.
I haven’t been as active on this site since the ownership changed, but when I have logged in it makes me happy to see a lot of the same names, both players and staff. I hope to see this site to keep on chugging along. I love this game for the sense of welcoming it gave to people of all types, and I am sure the staff here will continue to foster that. The real world can be such a challenge, having the safe places like this is something we all need. Thank you all for still being part of this community. If not often on this site specifically, I will always be around rooting for you all to succeed and find happiness in your own ways. All of you have value and worth. Please keep the good vibes. <3
thanks for all the answers/updates quinn! definitely feeling less dread based on these responses, and i'm hoping that the lack of schedule and pressure will allow u guys to get creative and focus on other aspects of the site u didn't have time to explore previously! the f2p model doesn't change how i feel about playing furvilla, i have too much fun levelling up my warriors and doing my animal husbandry to ever leave.
someday in the future if it's possible i would love to see a return of new monthly fde/feast pets because those releases were one of the things that got me most excited at the beginning of a new month, so i'm sad to see that go because i don't have any other "1st day of month content release" type thing in my life to fill that void. ; A ;
but also i can't argue that it's kinda nice to know that i'll be able to take advantage of the opportunity to get caught up on trying to complete my menagerie!
I hope everyone’s mental states get better, for both mods & users; sending as much love as possible!! <3
Hello! To clarify a few good questions you guys had.
First, Black Jade Week will still happen at the end of this month as previously announced. It is in 2026 that it will no longer occur.
Painties will still function as normal. We understand being able to customize your own villagers and make use of our many bases is one of the biggest aspects of this site, so we will continue to support this. In general, the site will continue to operate as usual even after 2027, but there wont be regular new items added to the game (via festivals, monthlies). Something that will be add is more regular gameplay means to be able to get previously FD or event locked items. We will do our best to keep the gameplay diverse and challenging for certain tasks.
Yes, as previously mentioned, we intend to make appropriate festival activities permanent and specific to each village. Subject to change, but this may very well include all the festival battlegrounds becoming permanent battlegrounds special their respective villages.
Hey! I'm fairly new here, but I wanted to chime in to say I'm proud of you two for recognizing your limits and stepping back before a total crash out. I helped run a business in the meatspace for 10 years that had to shut down around the start of the pandemic (for various reasons) and I can't tell you how hard of a decision it was to make. Ultimately, it was a good decision, for both financial and mental reasons. I hope this is the same for you two, and I'll continue to be here as long as the site is up.
One question! Will painties still function as normal? (I'm a very slow artist, but I do want to get some painties up eventually, lmao.)
Thank you for everything. <3 :3
Quick question!
The November beginning of month news post still says:
This year's Black Jade Week is scheduled to start near the end of the month. Please keep an eye on the news for more information as we draw closer. This year's mini event will feature sales on FD and more. Get ready to hang out with Buck again!
Yet the newer news posts seems to indicate that there will be no sales on Black Jade Week. Can you clarify whether there will be a FD sale this year, as we have had in the past?
Thanks!
With the Festivals being removed, please tell me that you will keep the festival battlegrounds around. It would be nice to have all festivals battle grounds active to battle in with rare chance for the festival items in those battlegrounds .