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.
so um hey which is it quinn the money from the FD and merch store doesn't fund the site or it does fund the site CAN'T be both and running a site at a loss generates well loss and isn't a financially sound investment for a site to continue for a long time makes it worse when you want to go to a F2P content site that's slowly becoming more and more unprofitable to keep propping up with money if the net loss outweighs the net gain.
Genuinely, you can’t expect players to NOT be asking uncomfortable questions when you, as the OWNERS, have left all of the player base in the dark about the livelihood of the site for so long that most of us just quit.
Hiding comments and getting snarky only makes the admin responsible for answering these questions look either out of the loop on their own site, or wholly unprepared to be asked the nitty and gritty things that the player-base *actually* wants to know,
A lot of us have been here from the beginning, and have a lot of time spent here. You brushing off the questions or hiding them and form muting people reads like your intention is to drive off the last of the user base here. :/ and that’s certainly a choice to make.
I'd be stunned if this site made it to new years honestly. With the back lash and hidden comments and not-answers from mods and staff it's looking pretty bad.
There's been lots of petsites that disappeared for similar reasons, Kingdom sky anyone? Tales of Ostlea?
at best Furvilla ends up turning into Eldemore. Though Goatlings isn't doing too great either right now.
@ OumaFox
Furvilla is not profitable. Yes any income we do take in (FD sales, ad revenue, etc) DID go to directly go to pay for costs to run Furvilla. Sadly it was never near enough to cover the costs. The majority came from my own personal funds. All funds FV generated did help because they decreased the losses. However it has become increasingly unsustainable.
I suppose I understand that it is counter intuitive that we would stop trying to generate funds. But to summarize, we are cutting the costs significantly come 2027, and we recognize there would be no justification to sell FD if we plan to stop selling new content a year later. The only reason we are ending FD sales a year earlier is to give players and our artist time to adjust. We are essentially funding 2026 with our own personal cash. To be frank, FD sales never was close to covering much larger cost of artwork, so we will actually be losing less money come 2027.
We are literally losing money to keep this site running. To suggest otherwise is simply false.
If money made on the fde shop, and merch shop didn't go to the site funds. Then where did it all go? People who pay the fde shop and merch buy it to support the site to keep going. Are you saying our money we gave to support the site has been going elsewhere. This is starting scare me. This feels like Fer.al all over again. Where owners used our money to support something else and not the game we thought we was supporting to keep going. At the time I baught FD to support the site. If it never funded the server. Where did it all go.
Varinis that is a good question thank you for pointing that out. I will need to look into that!
On the topic of the new bazaar items, where are the paintie bases for the stickers? cound the scorpion but can't find the new robo stickers
Merch and FD sales do not fund the site to pay for content. The site always ran at a loss. You can question the motives but the fact is we wanted to keep the site going even at massive personal financial loss.
Ending sales will be more than offset by scaling back on the cost of content. But remember the real cost to us was the time. This was never about money.
Being quite genuine about things here for a sec: the way that criticism is being handled here is really saddening to see. I do understand that some comments here didn’t add anything relevant to discussion, but the way in which folks are bringing up valid concerns and having their commentary hidden just.. For lack of better words, isn’t a great look. I would advise y’all to take all forms of critique into account; at the end of the day, Furvilla was a site inherited from the predecessors and did have a legacy attached to it. Some good, some bad, but it was still a site intended to be communal and cooperative. So seeing the way it wound up being handled is disheartening, to say the least.
To the general staff who’ve kept this site alive and listened to player feedback, I thank y’all. It’s been a good run, but it’s pretty much at curtain call now and hope everyone goes well.
Anyways, if anyone wants to find me around I’ll have my Carrds linked on forums. To the old and new users I’ve seen that I recognize: uhh, heyo there again. I guess we’re all just kinda confused and existing, but it’s nice to see y’all again in midst of everything.
at this point i'm done asking questions since this seems to end up with you making snarky responses instead of actually genuinly understanding my concern for when the inevitable happens I.E. the merch shop running out of stock and money for the site seizes cause merchandise won't be restocked.