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.
I will keep playing until someone pries the site from my hands
Wow, big news indeed. While I'm sad about the end of regular new content, and especially festivals, I completely understand the reasons. I'll miss festivals a lot though.
I really appreciate the openness and advance warning, and I imagine it has taken a lot of thought to come to this decision. I'm very grateful for the fact that you are willing to keep the site up and running, even at a loss. I've played games which just disappeared one day or stopped being updated without an explanation, and it's not a good feeling.
I'm not very active in the community, but I've been here a long time and log in often to check on my villagers. I've enjoyed the site and hope I'll continue to do so. I also hope these changes help improve your well-being and that you can better enjoy it too. Thanks to the whole team for all the love and care you've put into it!
LanceDoggo
Firstly I want to say thank you for your support and being such a positive part of this site for all these years. I remember watching your streaming videos even before we took over. One of the primary reasons we took over Furvilla was because we had a passion for the site, as players, and we did not want to see it go away. I always envisioned I would only need to fund everything. I did not ever imagine I would ever have to learn to code nor did Aspen expect she would get so involved in the development of the game.
Sadly it is not sustainable, nor can Furvilla afford to pay professional coders and admins to keep working on the sight. We are absolutely grateful that we have had so many staff members volunteer their time to keep this site running as well as it has. We all do it because we have a passion for the game and the community of players here.
I agree that it is sad to think things won’t be the same come 2027, but we have decided to keep the site running as long as we can reasonably do so. I understand that the changes may make it more challenging to retain or gain new players, but there have been many pet sites that have continued on without the promise of continuous new content. Ultimately we want to give players one more year to enjoy new content while giving them the goal of completing collections.
We expect to still have updates and new content but they won’t come with the pressure of being on a schedule or needing to justify players spending money or looking at ads. For us, transition away from being a business will be liberating and perhaps we will feel free to do things for fun rather than sticking to the same routine.
To answer your question, Furvilla was never profitable, and we can continue to run Furvilla as a free to play game without asking for financial help from the players. If you do want to help, you can consider buying FD while you still can, or buying merch while it is still available. But after the end of this year we won’t be taking in anymore funds. We are fortunate enough to be able to afford to run Furvilla in the foreseeable future at a loss. I would prefer our players otherwise keep their hard earned money to enrich their own lives. I hope we all can continue to enjoy each other’s time together here as long as we can.
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First up I do want to say it’s been a wild and crazy ride over the almost 10 last years here on the site. While the news is both sad and exciting, I myself will still be around as well to help whomever asks, and to level even more warriors. Words over all cannot express my thanks that FV isn’t going away any time in for foreseeable future. Also thank you both for taking up the mantle of running the site for as long as you have.
I also want to thank the mod and admin staff. I know I have friends among them, and I’m even more thankful that some of them are sticking around for the foreseeable future as well. We can never thank you all enough for the work you put into this site for us all.
I do have one question over all that I know most either won’t like or won’t care about; but even after merch is gone, will there be any way that us users can assist you both financially with the site? Servers don’t pay for themselves, especially with ads turned off. I for one would still like to assist in keeping the site up and running if I’m able… and even if I get nothing in return besides the knowledge that the site will continue running for however much longer the donation could take it.
woah well that was unexpected :(
Was not expecting the maintenance mode announcement, but. not surprised.
Long as the site doesn't go offline and we can still play I'm okay with that, it's better than the alternatives.
Time to get some more merch I guess.
Well this was heartbreaking to read and doesn't seem to show a very optimistic future for the site. :(
This is certainly... big news, albeit not the kind I was expecting. I joined this site when I was 14, and now I'm about to turn 18. I've met so many great people on this site, even ones I've met up with at cons and hung out with. FV has been a huge part of my life for the past 4 years, and no matter what happens with the site I know I'll be sticking around, I'm thankful that it's been a part of my life.
even though i love the idea of ad-free and free-to-play and think that's a major upgrade, i'm really shocked and saddened about the news about festivals and monthlies...
have you guys considered getting an intrapreneur on board to work with you to find a way to manage ways for the site to make at least enough of a profit to keep a steady stream of new content? knowing it's going to eventually dry up has got me feeling the same kind of dread as a lot of the other users with the "nail in the coffin" comments and whatnot :(
Thank you so much for trying your best for the site. I’ve been on Furvilla for many years at this point and I have so many good memories. Thank you for doing what you can to keep this place going. It’s been a special place for me for a long time.
Whatever happens I will be here, enjoying the site.