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.
Yikes
Dawg, what am I supposed to play after. Minecraft and Roblox, here I come
I was nervous to read this post at first, because the content felt like a message marking the end of Furvilla entirely. That isn't the case. While it makes me happy to hear that Furvilla will continue running in some way, it's bittersweet to realize that a game I've been playing since 2018, two years after FV's beta ended, will come to a close someday. However, at the same time, this is inevitable. Neopets, Dragcave, Webkinz, and other pet sites that have been around since the early 2000s are still active, so it seems like this one will be around for a long time too. I wish the mods, artists, and everyone who has continued to make content the best of luck in the future. For as long as FV is running, I'll continue to support them.
Bittersweet news, shocking and sad, yet understandable all the same. As a user and artist that previously lost their place where they were most comfortable, Furvilla became that home I been able to grow in. The people I’ve met and the friendships I’ve formed here have made this site the most joyful online social experience I’ve ever had.
I’ll be here until the very end, even if saying that out loud is difficult. I truly love this site and wish there were more we could do to support it.
Still, I have to be realistic of the current environment and what Furvilla may be facing in the upcoming time. Either way, I thank you, Quinn, the entire staff, the moderators and even previous helpers who gave their time to make this place just a little brighter.
Here's to a good 2026, and many completed collections to come!
ElderOrca I understand both sides those who only play for festivals enjoy the new content no festivals whats there for them to do? and if your someone who plays daily what happens if you collect everything and nothing new to get or look forward to he site becomes boring and unplayable. new content keeps interst nothing new people feel like nothing to work for. cause "got it all" I'll still be playing cause Furvilla means a lot to me but I do still deeply worry what's to come when people collect everything and nothing else to do because "I got no goals now"
This is quite a surprising turn of events! I was expecting something like this, but going F2P was not on my bingo card. Thank you for the past years, I've enjoyed the festivals so far, although I can't say I'm not relieved to be free from the fest grinds. I hope they come back in some sort of automated form at least! All the art and the content is fun to look at. These types of actions are usually the first signs of death for a pet site, but that was a long time coming, wasn't it? Regardless, I'll be here until the ship sinks.
I wasn't surprised or shocked to read this announcement, I feel it's been a long time coming. Something had to give and i'm honestly very grateful to Quinn and Aspen for choosing to keep going with this site instead of giving up on it. I don't agree with the view of 'this will be the final nail in the coffin' or, the site will die because no one will log in anymore' etc .. That will only happen if you choose to be that player. Don't have that mindset of 'well i'm not going to log in anymore if there is no new content or festivals, what's the point?' Don't be that player .. The best way we can support Quinn and Aspen is to keep playing, Keep logging in and keep the site alive.. That is literally all they are asking us to do at the end of the day.. Just keep showing up and keep enjoying the game. Sure it's sad that there is some much loved content being removed BUT if the alternative is to close the game then i will happily embrace these changes with an open mind and a renewed appreciation for how difficult it is to run games like this. I can't say i'll be sad to see the adverts go, I for one will not miss seeing ads of some random woman's feet at the top of page every day XD
I remember the Beta period - when I was the most active. Furvilla was a very important part of my life during highschool. I don't remember if I signed up day one, but it would have been within the first few. The forums where SO fast in the first week - nobody understood the roles and everyone was dipping their heads in to see what was going on.
I remember the first time that I ever cracked 10,000 FC, I had bought an art commission and needed to save up to pay it. I remember shifties and the uproar that caused. Everyone had fought tooth and nail to be able to change the bases just a tiiiiiny bit and all of a sudden you just. Didn't need to do that. I remember when cows got introduced with visible utters. People used to get their paintes rejected for having fluff between the legs, and THIS was allowed? That was fun. I'm not sure if it was fun for you guys.
The first FD (and last, oops) I ever bought was the Sneep, and I got a rainbow male the first try. I breed so, so many of these little guys and they still take up a good two pages of my inventory. The fursona that I still use TO THIS DAY is half sneep, and I have no plans to ever, ever change that.
I was actually shocked to find that FV was still running as it was in 2025 with less than a hundred people online at any given time. I'm not in the least bit surprised that this announcement has been made. I still have (and treasure) my long-in badge that got sent to me, and I'm sad that I'm not able to buy the supporters pack.
I'm excited to be able to be here for the 10th anniversary, and I hope FV's 'supported' period goes out with a bang as big as day 1.
I do actually have a question. Will the feast be discontinued after 2027?
@ Fennekinfan11 we do not plan to introduce new species but Kiwi the original character artist has been working for us. She is very busy but we hope to continue to release the intermittent new character art from time to time. So this potentially means new villagers for existing species and costumes (for example the recently released Scopion Warrior), so long as she is able. We still have many art orders from our primary artist to complete the new 2026 content, and we hope to still be able to commission the occasional work from her after that, even if it won’t be nearly as regular.