BetaFoodAdvanced

Beta Food Advanced is a Minecraft Bukkit/Spigot/Paper plugin which reintroduces the beta food mechanics that were removed in Beta 1.8; Prior to this update, using food would directly heals health. BFA tries to bring this back - or atleast imitate it! Get it here: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/beta-food-advanced.99622/

Benefits

Only eat when you take damage.
Customizable config.
Custom resource pack that can be enforced or not.
Relive your nostalgic memories
You can call yourself an OG (Cool guy basically, get all the women).

To Do

Enforce an configurable Server resource pack which removes the food icons all together. (DONE)

Simple explanation

BetaFoodAdvanced removes the usage of the "Hunger bar" replacing it with a system that uses the health bar. On a player eating, the "nutrition value" that is gained is added directly to health.

The boring explanation

BFA is a fairly simple concept; we stop the player from being able to increase thier FoodLevel; this is done like this:

@EventHandler
public void onPlayerEat(PlayerItemConsumeEvent event) {
        Player player = event.getPlayer();
        double maxHealth = player.getAttribute(Attribute.GENERIC_MAX_HEALTH).getDefaultValue();
        // Keep Player Food intact.
        Bukkit.getScheduler().runTaskLater(main, () -> {
        player.setFoodLevel(8); // 4 food bars
        .....

A similar function is integrated for other events such as; PlayerRespawnEvent, PlayerJoinEvent, PlayerInteractEvent (used for cake). setFoodLevel(8) is used to set the FoodLevel to 8 (4 whole icons); the viable FoodLevel - low enough that you do not regenerate, yet high enough so you can sprint. We get the Nutrition Value from a HashMap; I don't use NMS, because we all know it's Shit.