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[Maldevious]

Just curious what exactly the much referred to Hydra Test entails. Any ideas?

[SolarShado]

making sure it doesn't die after a single head is severed?

making sure it drops the proper number of skulls?

[Sizik]

This probably has something to do with it.

I also did wounds from falling and the transfer of wound and appearance data to corpses and severed parts. The wound transfer should be key to sorting out issues like exactly where a hydra's heads are and whether or not the skulls have been removed and so on.

[Afthartos]

About that proper number of skulls. Doesn't hydra grow two more heads on severed stumps of its necks if they aren't cauterised

[Soadreqm]

Instant regeneration isn't in the game yet, and probably won't be for a while.

I guess for now hydras are supposed to just not die as soon as you chop one head off. Without some instant regeneration, having one of your seven jugulars cut probably should do something, but I guess that might be easier to fix with a quick hack.

[Aachen]

About that proper number of skulls. Doesn't hydra grow two more heads on severed stumps of its necks if they aren't cauterised

That'd be the Lernean hydra, I wit. One of Hercules's Labors was to destroy the thing. It lived in a swamp where the foul reek (which originated from the hydra AFAIR) overcame those who came to battle the creature.

[Ampersand]

If I remember the way Hydras work right now, the game only asks after a round of combat, "Was a brain detached? Yes? Die." without checking if other viable brains are still attached.

[Satarus]

Yeah that sounds about right.  I remember fighting an Ettin in adventure mode.  I chopped off one of his heads and he collapsed.  I struck him down a few rounds later.  He probably would have died with just the missing head since no brain means no working lungs or heart.

[random51]

Hydras make great beta-testers, after all, N heads are better than one.

[The Architect]

If I remember the way Hydras work right now, the game only asks after a round of combat, "Was a brain detached? Yes? Die." without checking if other viable brains are still attached.

I believe that is fixed for Hydras; they can have heads cut off in worldgen and then arrive headless at your fortress. The problem is that they bleed out.