Thread:173.95.141.0/@comment-25546749-20130120015038

The Tekkit/Technic modpacks are a group of mods (aka modifications) packed and edited to work together. Mods themselves allow the game to be altered to create new objects, world generations, and more. Basically, it's like making Minecraft a new game. As a matter of fact, the Minecraft dev team has actually started to help out mods by creating a new way to implement them via a plugin-type folder. Hacks, on the other hand, are malicious types of alterations made to benefit only the user and usually cause damage to others, usually by boosting speed, power, etc. Tekkit instead creates new items to "industrialize" your Minecraft worlds and servers, allows pipes for easier transportation systems, brings in advance redstone circuits and applications, and introduces alchemy for item and energy transmutations.

Actually, I have a better idea. Read up on your own the difference between a mod and a hack elsewhere before you call bs on me and actually understand exactly what a mod is before you try to argue. 