Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a mantis? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a mantis.
the time is between
1.20min and 1.45min withe rino horns
HELPFUL TIP! Make sure you have more horns than needed as Dododex was wrong on the amount, ruined my 150 tame
For babies:spoiled meat gives 50food,raw gives 10
Don’t try to get them stuck under your wyvern and get off to solo tame them.. they will despawn mid tame.
Can lure into water and tame like an arthlo
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, Use Bug Repellant, Cactus Broth and Ghillie Armour for easy taming. The Mantis’ aggro range is crazy massive but if you have these buffs they will not see you coming, if you can, feed your mount cactus broth and bug repellant if you’re really paranoid. Happy Taming Survivors!
How do you tame non violent things that try to kill you 24 7?
You can’t even tame them on crystal isles
Trapping them with a wyvern wings could make it despawn
They used to only eat Deathworm horns but there was an update, now they can eat wooly rhino horns as well.
Take a mated shadowmane pair and use the female aoe invisibility, enjoy the easy Taming :). (you can basically jump on the thing and it won't notice you)
Parking a wyvern on it will make it disappear. Had it happen twice
Procoptodon will hold mantis up to 28% maturation
As of the latest update, these can now be tamed with rhino horns, though with lower effectiveness.
When Raising Babies, they eat Spoiled Meat !
So these are a passive tame, get some bug repellent ( make it ok a mortar or a chem bench and you’ll need; narc, lemons, carrots and pelt)
You will also need Deathworm horns for the actual taming, put them in the last slot on the quick access bar.
Find the Mantis that you want, use the bug repellent (you’ll get about 400 seconds) and no insects will agro by you being near them. Approach the mantis from behind and feed them to it.
It may takes more than one feed? If that’s the case be aware that the mantis will agro for a bit.
Fjourder now has dead death worms in the volcano area, and you can harvest their horns, in the oil deltas!
Best place to get deathworm horns is in the ice cave on Ragnarok, can run in with a couple decent Deinonychus' or a Thyla and just shred them and they spawn frequently enough that by the time you get to the boss room and turn back you've got a bunch!
There is a great video on how to kill death worms very early game on YouTube by a guy named fresonis which involves using oil jars and flaming arrows to kill it and catch it on fire while it moves underground. This strategy is great for early game players with limited resources as it only takes around 4-5 oil jars and flame arrows to kill a level one death worm. This is a great way to farm horns for mantis taming.
If your on ragnarok just go in the ice dungeon and farm the ice worm males for a bit. They spawn like every 30 seconds and drop horns and some other valuables