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.
Adding into LanceDoggo advice to start new, you could change villagas as well. Everyone gets one free village change if I recall if you have not used it yet you could move freely and if possible get a new username but that costs FD to do so you can feel truly new start. only thing can't remove is forums posts.
Devorare_Animos Going off of what the rules as written are... Even if you delete your current account, you'll still be breaking the rules if you make a new account. Period.
Best thing I can recommend is if you want to "Start Over", just abandon everything. All villagers, all items, all currency, all villager houses. You won't see the tutorial, and I don't think you can "break" the first 4 villager houses you unlock... but you'll be at about the same spot you would be on a new account.
This news kind of makes me want to make a new account to completely start from scratch in my collecting when the site goes F2P. Would it be possible at that time to make a second account, or would I have to delete this one first? I know we couldn't and can't have two accounts before and now, but I'm curious if F2P would change that rule or not?
Aviva As softly as I possibly can: If you are that unsettled by the criticism that users have to the point it’s impeding your mental health, I would recommend stepping away from the thread entirely. Maybe auto-block yourself out of it so you’re not tempted? I understand how ard it can be when you’re personally invested in a situation, but to be blunt I do not think it’s healthy, nor do you have the full picture of the site itself.
While you may not have been around during that time, Beta Testers and older veteran players have a much different perception of the site. We had much more communication with staff, and our feedback was included within discussion. People are entitled to be upset when it goes from being looped into discussion back to being thrown out of the table. And yes, as much as you may or may not agree with it, that does include negative feedback, including strongly-worded ones. And the fact it’s being hidden is, in fact, a concern over how much free speech is permitted on the site. Concerns on that being deleted or taken as non-answers are also valid.
I can imagine, as with many site changes, it is indeed hectic to keep up with and answer everything. So I do, if nothing else, appreciate the owners for responding to some of the questions, regardless of whether the answers are satisfactory. But when it comes to removal of constructive criticism, that comes off as an inability to make remarks that aren’t positive. And not everyone can monitor tone in the same way as others, so it also lowkey comes off as ableist (even if not the intent, autistic & other neurodivergencies can make tone monitoring relevant).
I know this is likely not the response you wanted, but I do hope that this helps both you and the owners understand where the underlying issue is. And of course to everyone here, please stay safe, get some hot chocolate and know that I have loved being a part of this site in its heyday. <3
A shame to read, but I can completely understand the need to step back, and figure out how to deal with things in the long term. I haven't been as active here as I used to when I first signed up, but I still love coming around and using the bases for my Sonas. So I hope to keep seeing it strive for some great outcome. Will be here for as long as I can.
First of all, I'd like to thank and compliment Quinn and the staff for patiently handling all the comments and questions with a grace and equanimity that have often been far "above and beyond" what one would expect, especially in response to some aggressively negative comments. Well done!
I'm just now catching up after 6+ days of staying away from this thread, due to the upsettingly toxic comments that were all too frequent at that time. Today I was happy to see that the mods are at least hiding some of the less relevant comments now, so that we can easily find the on-topic questions and responses.
Thank you!
Also: So far, having read every one of Quinn's responses, I have not found even ONE example of being "snarky" in any way.
Some of our readers are not native English speakers, and we all have different backgrounds which can affect our verbal interpretations, so text communication can be tricky... but in all honesty, the most I have seen from Quinn is a little gentle humor — mostly aimed at himself.
I'm so thankful the owners are wise and resilient enough to keep responding so well, and my respect for them (as well as my faith in the potential future of this site) continues to rise as I see their good intentions shining through.
Thank you again!
Welp, it's been fun. I think it's time I move on.
I'm reading the comments and rereading the news post and I'm concerned that the FD shop is going away and the pets will only cycle for one year before being retired forever. I think that's a terrible choice. If the point is to allow us to collect everything (and I am looking forward to completing some of my FDE pet collections), then we cannot be expected to rely on the 202x Pet Boxes to try and pull the ONE type of pet we need and pull again for the COLOURS we need. That is absurd.
Please try and think of a way to keep these pets collectable after FDE pets stop cycling. My suggestions: Have <b> every single FDE pet stocked as a box</b> in whatever form the new FDE shop looks like, or have <b>FDE pets be breedable forever instead of unbreedable</b> (maybe 20 day cooldown instead of their usual 5).
Do not mistake a tedious and near-impossible grind to actually obtain the pets you want as engaging gameplay, please. I want to give this a chance. I really do. But you have to figure out a way to make FDE pets available after their 'cycling' ends.
I left the site earlier this year, but heard there was something going on and decided to check back, and uh... yikes?
while yes, this was a long time coming (and honestly, should've happened earlier), seeing the way staff members are handling valid critique and dodging valid questions is very disappointing to see. I don't know what I was expecting, I guess I just hoped something like this would be handled better. it makes me very sad to see a game I loved so dearly in my early teens go down in flames like this.
I'll be turning cold turkey back on now, but I will be surprised if this site actually makes it to 2027. good luck.
Why did the cost of many bazaar items go up so drastically?
The stuff to buy those items is already really rare.
And the people that have stuck around don't have as much time to spend trying to get those items.