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.
Are we still gonna see new species after this?
To answer the two latest comments, myself and Aspen had been players since the early days as well. The game and its community is very important to us and is very much the inspiration for us to keep the site going. The idea of Furvilla ending is just as sad to me as it is to our most loyal of players, and I truely mean that. The best way to help keep this site is to keep this community something worth keeping alive, no matter the cost. In short, it’s not a financial issue. Keep showing your love of Furvilla by simply playing and being part of the community and being friendly with each other.
Furvilla was made to be inclusive and welcoming, while also happening to be a pet site. There is no reason we cannot keep all those aspects alive.
Zjero made a good point. We hope that one goal players can have now is to complete their various collections. There are so many items still to come in 2026 that even come 2027 the challenge of collecting everything that exist will be goal we encourage players to achieve. We had envisioned the Bazaar to be one of many methods for us to release items of varying challenges to collect. Our aim is to have every existing item to be obtainable in some way from regular game play.
Also please forgive me for my frequent typos in my responses! For I am the coder, not a typist!
[First of all, I apologize if this is worded weird as English isn't my native language.]
This is certainly HUGE, shocking news, and while I'm devastated about no more festivals and no new items; and worried that the game will start to feel stale - I understand why you had to make this decision. Maintaining a site like this, with monthly new content, new artwork, new entries to the database, is tons of work.
Since the day I joined, I've logged in to FurVilla every single day with just a few misses, and I'm hoping to keep logging in every day still. <3
Anyway, I'm interested in how the gameplay will change in the F2P model! Maybe I'll finally manage to collect every sticker out there ^_^ And I'm thankful that you're adding the "feed all" button! This will remove a lot of unnecessary strain and make FurVilla even more fun.
If I can make a suggestion, I'd love if the events could be coded to still kick off and end on time, with the past event items being available only during that time - but I understand if that’s too much work and maintenance.
Thank you so much for bringing us fun over the years! FurVilla has been my favorite browser game, may it stay around as long as possible <3
Moissonite thanks you for the feed all button. She can finally feast all at once. This announcement has me wary, worried and sad. I appreciate that you have been up front with us. As someone who has been here since beta, this site means so much to me. I've supported with my dollar not for the items in the shop most of the time, but as a way to say "I love this site and I want to see it thrive." I wish that the FD Shop could stay open if only as a way to help with server costs or just to show support for the site. I know Quinn said to use our money to enrich our lives. Well, what if this site is a part of that?
My best friend had passed about 2 years before this site opened, and this site and the people I have met on it have helped me heal and grow as a person, discovering more about myself and finding artists and friends alike. Reading this, I was hit with that familiar feeling; feeling like i'm watching someone I care about slowly decline. Please, let us be able to help you in any way; including financially. I will stay on here until the very end, but please; let us help that end be further away.
Hi friends! I will do my best to keep reading the comments here and respond to any specific questions and concerns.
Firstly, we still plan to have content for all of 2026, so we all will have one full year of festivals to celebrate. We had considered simply scheduling them to use the same content repeatedly each year… but festivals have never been that way and we decided it would be better and more honest to simply stop having them after 2026. That being said, we are planning to retain festival content on a permanent basis, perhaps unique to each town. For example, perhaps you can still use spin the wheel and become a werewolf or vampire year round, if you simply visit Dragons Maw manor. This will be work in progress. But we have ruled out running the yearly festivals.
The shipping costs internationally reflect costs beyond our control, and we always ship with tracking numbers. Having to pay the unreasonable cost of shipping to certain countries is sadly a cost of doing business.
Many of you have expressed concern this will be the end of Furvilla. I certainly hope not. As mentioned before we never ran this site profitably so the cost of running it for free without the added cost of ordering content at the same rate will likely make it even less of loss. But to be honest that was never an issue for us as making money was never the motive. If anything I feel sad to not be able to work with our awesome artist as much as we have been. Buying art for business use is not cheap, but every penny was worth it as we highly value the work artist do.
Sadly, ultimately the greatest cost to us personally was the time required, and the associated stresses and mental health strains. It had reached the point we could no longer justify continuing as is for much longer. But we also decided we did not want to end the site after 10 years. We hope for much longer than that, so long as there are players still enjoying the game.
Finally, 2027 won’t be the complete end of content. We may very well decide to do special releases and content when inspiration hits. No promises but I imagine that as owners we will be more open to random things now that we aren’t completely occupied with running festivals every other month. I will still be the coder and I am sure I will make QOL updates here and there.
The reason the Clawtooth Bazaar updates won’t be announced is two-fold. Firstly, we expect there to eventually be so many different contents added that it may be awhile for a specific game me to actually spawn, so it might be frustrating for players to be told a new item is released, and for them to not actually see it in the Bazaar right away. We feel it’s better to be a surprise they don’t expect. Secondly, we have noticed there is an active player-made forum keeping track of what is available in the Bazaar. I would hate to ruin the fun of that for those that like spotting new things and sharing them with the rest of the players
That’s it for now. Thank you all for your kind words. Most of all thank you for me playing. You are the reason we want to keep this site alive however we can. <3.
i don't post much but this is one of my favorite pet sites and i'll be here until it dies. it's completely understandable that it's become too difficult to keep up with. thank you for deciding to keep it running, even without new content. thank you for the "feed all" button too, that will save my hands
i see you already answered the question of if we can help financially... it's really nice that you're willing to keep the site up at a loss, but if you guys ever want donations please let us know, i can probably toss a little your way
i hope Furvilla can stay up for as long as possible, loved this game since it started
.......as much as i'm for a free-to-play site the shipping fee for oversea users from an american's perspective is just a major ooooof like i'm sorry 19.95 for a 3 dollar sticker making it 22.95 per sticker that's just not in my eye's a reasonable price no one should be forced to pay over 20 dollars for something that shouldn't cost that much stickers are easy to mass produce and are extremely cheap to mass produce.
I've been here for nearly a decade now, playing on and off but always making sure to check in for my favourite festivals. I was here for the first few anniversaries, I was here when the site management changed hands, I've seen countless staff and players come and go. Thank you Aspen and Quinn for doing your best for the site. I know it was and remains truly a labour of love. Even the way that you've decided to go about transitioning Furvilla into this F2P model speaks to your passion for the community and site. I do wish that FD purchases could've remained up, at least as a way to help support server costs for the site or whatever else as a token of support. But thank you for the heads-up and looking forward to the last year of festivals.
PS. Is there a reason that new content in Clawtooth Bazaar will not always be announced?