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 don’t believe there is an explanation that would satisfy you. That is okay. :)
If fv has never meant to run on profit then why have a merch store,FD emporium or black Friday deals? Your answer makes absolutely zero sense
Furvilla has never run a profit nor did we expect to. That is not the reason for keeping the site going.. Going F2P means we are not even trying. Does it make “sense”? Haha I suppose not.
That really doesnt answer my question though if you dont want to deal with potential tariffs the merch store isnt going to be 100% reliable a f2p website still needs to make a profit if the merch store is going to be a limited supply shop what will happen once all the merch is sold out how is the site going to get income??
We are talking about the merch shop, which is for physical purchase of merchandise. There will be no difference between countries for virtual shops.
If its due to tariffs wouldn't the FD emporium be a little more reliable to use since the price on fd is fixed and wont be shipped anywhere meaning tariff fees wont affect it?
There is not plans to produce anymore merch, so yes I can say once all is sold out, they will be gone forever. Eventually we will be moving the merch store to a partner online store.
The Fan Packs will be shipped using standard rate US Postal packages with tracking, so we will be able to reliably factor in pricing. International shipping can be exceedingly expensive or unreliable to the point we deemed it not worth doing. Also, given the political climate we do not wish to get involved in dealing with potential tariffs on more valuable goods, which could vary by country, and would potentially require the buyer to pay the shipping company directly. These packs will be few in quantity so it simply would be excessively costly and difficult for international buyers. As mentioned before even shipping on stickers can be rediculous.
So umm are u not going to answer genuine questions that do pertain to this news thread cause zjero made some good questions about the merch shop that I'd also genuinely love to see answered
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Also! Is there any particular reason why the Fan Pack won't be shipped outside USA? I'd definitely be interested in checking them out, but sadly I don't live in the States.