Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Have a tribe mate land on the mantis with a wyvern. They won't move for the entire taming process.
Best method I was told. Build a 2x2 stone [or wood if low] foundation with 2 high walls, drop in with flyer, feed through wall. Has a massive hitbox to feed it through if lured close to a wall. No repel needed with this method.
These guys eat rotten meat once tamed!!
If you have a wyvern and you’re on a map with an ocean you can pick the mantis and drop it in water, it won’t agro you and you can tame it without needing any ghillie armour or bug repellent.
Although they look menacing they are actually quite weak against other dinosaurs. You can kill those with an Argy. They give A LOT of organic polymer, so come prepared.
Where do they spawn on lost island? Sky arrow if spawn deep in the desert
The mantis Lays eggs more often in the Desert (the desert also has 100% wind)
Use bug repellant and a gillie suit. It allows you to get close without it attacking you.
Ok the creature you kill to tame the mantis are endgame but mantises are mid game that makes no sense
If you need deathworm horns go to 0,10 (northwest corner of the map) in Scorched Earth and just keep walking back and forth along the northern barrier, a deathworm should spawn in less than 5 minutes.
On fjordur there are free deathworm corpses on the volcano island around the tarpits. I got 8 from the 6 bodies laying around. No need to hunt those monstrous worms for one horn.
Eggs cannot be moved, much like bloodstalker. Cannot eat cooked meat or will starve.
I agree with you I tried to tame one on scorched earth with a full set of Gilley armor and raw meat so yeah I really realm do agree with you
Be warned that they have a fairly long range pounce, and do good damage. Don't fight these unless you're truly prepared.
Trap it in a 1 by 2 trap, one wall high. It's legs or butt will stick out somewhere, go to it and get the angle where you can feed it the horns! No Ghille required
Best place to get Deathworm horns is the Ice Queen cave on Ragnarock. Just take a Sabertooth and eat the easy male death worms. Easy horns they spawn back fast. Use them to tame the mantis.