I know it is possible to turn chat off, but I still get the messages when people buy things. Of course, I'm very happy people are buying! But it always seems to happen at the most inopportune moments; e.g. I'm running away from half a dozen creepers, or pillaring over lava and dodging Ghasts, when my screen fills up with "So-and-so has bought 1 chicken egg from you, for 9 rupee" - repeated 20 times - and I can't see a thing!
Install the mod "Improved Chat" and then use the help commands to see how to ignore a string of text. You could also use Improved Chat to get tabbed chat. One for normal chat, and one for Shops.
I can't find it - I found some old version, but I don't know if that'd work; can you give me any pointers?
Thanks! Can't see any instructions though? Sorry, I'm no expert on mods. Do I just throw all those in one of the minecraft folders?
Its just like installing any other mod. Open up the zip and copy all the .class files into the minecraft.jar in .minecrafts/bin