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.
Again sorry for my typos. I am a poor typist!
Heyya! Thank you all for the kind words. It really does mean a lot. We want to keep this a positive safe place for the players so positivity is always welcome. I do understand the anxieties and frustrations of players so I not going take things too negatively when such feelings are expressed.
Just a couple things. I do think considering yourself to be “guests” of this site undervalues how much you all mean to Furvilla. The players are the heart of this game, even as we transition to being F2P. There would be no reason to keep running the site at all with you. You are all part of this site just as much as the staff is.
With regards to festivals, we considered many different iterations of how we could handle them. We had decided that redoing Fesitvals repeatedly with the same prizes was not a desirable long term answer.
. We will aim to rerelease old festival prizes in other ways. For example, the previously mentioned transition of certain elements becoming permanent village features. There is still much work to do. :)
I think Aviva has the right attitude! As much as reading this shocked and saddened me on the first day reading some of Quinn's responses have helped my anxiety haha.
I'm so sorry to see so many of the hateful comments towards Quinn and Aspen, they don't deserve any of that. Thank you two and the rest of the staff for keeping this site going. I've been a daily player since beta, and this place has felt like home to me for the past 9+ years.
Not sure if this has been asked/explained already, but is there a reason that the festivals can't continue without new content? Like, just rereleasing some of the old festival items in future festivals? Because that'd be super fun, having a second chance to get items from festivals that I missed out on!
I second what Aviva said beneath, I couldn't have said it better.
It's easy to cast judgment, and it's something people are quick to do. But you do everyone dirty, even yourself, when you do it without having all the information or without having empathy for the people involved. We're honestly lucky Furvilla has been kept alive at all and that it's been kept alive by people who love the site and have integrity in how they run it. You don't know how rare that is.
As players, we are guests here. We are enjoying many amenities here for free, and are able to play and interact with like-minded people from all over the world, only because our hosts have invested so much of their own time, effort, and even personal funds to keep it available to us.
Considering the hard work and good will that are continuing to be expended in providing this venue, and the repeatedly expressed willingness of its stewards to keep it alive and running for us, it is only right to for us — as guests — to look past our immediate reactions of fear and disappointment, and to really appreciate what we still have.
As far as I can tell, the greatest danger to the site is the kind of negativity and doomsaying that have been scattered here and in a couple of threads on the forum.
On the other hand, if we — as guests — choose to interact cordially with each other and to elevate the site with our own positive presence and communications, we have the power to help shape this site into a really joyful and welcoming place that is even more positive than it was before.
It really is up to us. I can hear and feel the caring in Quinn's and Aspen's posts. They would really love to see the site both survive and thrive. And how we conduct ourselves from this point forward can play a very significant role in how things develop over the coming years.
If enough of us are willing to put in the effort to treat this site and its hosts with the kindness and care they deserve, it can only help to inspire our hosts and their team to contribute even more of their own positivity as well.
Could Furvilla become a glowing beacon of kindness (as well as fun and all-around good vibes), and keep on expanding for many years to come, getting better with each passing year?
I believe that it can, if enough players invest THEIR good will to uplift rather than to rant, to appreciate rather than to bash — and to suggest, rather than demand, if changes seem to be in order.
We all have so much power to influence things for good — both here and elsewhere. I heartily encourage all of us to remember that power, and to use it wisely and well.
Toxtricity the big change won't happen until 2027. Even then, the feast will still happen, just come then there will no longer be new feast pets or buttons. The worker slot prize will still be invaluable.
We thought it the right time to create the feed all button. Going forward, I intend to still make intermittent QoL updates. So the answer will be the same to all such questions. The point is to make improvements to the existing mechanics in the game, so long as there are still players that want them.
needs to be a case study on what went down with this site, man
Hello! Just want to say I will leave it up to the moderators to decide if any comments go over the line. I understand this was not an announcement people wanted to see, so I can see some of the negative comments being a result of people caring about this community and not wanting to see it end.
Please remember that there is still next year, full of festivals and content, and we will still be working to get the site to a state that I can keep going well beyond 2027. Who knows, with less focus on festivals and setting up content, perhaps there will be more time for us to focus on QoL updates and new ideas for permanent improvements.
Bottom line is 2026 will be more of the same that you've come to expect, so we got over a year to assess how this community looks in 2027. We haven't given up on this site, even if it is no longer as a business.
The rude comments are really unneeded. I get people are upset, heck I am too. But there is really no need to be so rude.