Crappy?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zooommg how wrong you are.
But really, it is pretty damn fun. I've been playing the single player version recently and some of the insane creations you can make are absolutely awesome. I think some of the more technical minecrafters on here would have a field day with some of the stuff on offer from those mods.
(a lot of the mods integrate nicely with each other, y'see).
If anyone wants to try out tekkit, I quickly stuck a version of it onto one of my small servers to see what it's like.
Connect to capturize.it :)
Went on survival and it was night time, got killed by a zombie and a skeleton. Respawned, went back, killed a creeper with the help of a skeleton and then killed said skeleton. Ran to someone's house (BP's?) waiting for light.
Starting during the day is definitely a critical factor in whether or not you can get anything done in survival.
If you're still there, go into the upstairs bit and remove some mud/brick - it's only one layer thick, so you can get out before he follows.
Oh, and if there's anything left in the chest/furnaces, go ahead and use it - I've gone off to build a bigger place for myself.