Do not be me and knock out a 150 after searching 3 hours coming to realize it's a passive tame.

Use bug repellent and cactus broth when taming, this makes agro range literally 0.

Kill every vulture in area if can. They will aggro on mantis and make tameing bar restart.

The mantis can be used to tame other creatures by equipping clubs. The higher the melee of the mantis and the club, the faster you can knock things out

The most versatile of Scorched Earths creatures. A Mantis can hold the roles of multiple different creatures depending on the tools or weapons it has equipped. Picks and Hatchets make them ultimate harvesters, Pikes and Swords can turn them into deadly combat mounts and Clubs can allow them to quickly down creatures for taming, they have no need for Sickles since they can harvest fiber by default. However you'll need to level it's stats depending on the role you plan to assign it to. For example, if you want too make a Mantis a harvester weight and Melee are what you'll want to go for, if you want it to be a expert at combat health and Melee with some stamina in case things go wrong and you have to flee are the way to go since there pounce attack is enough to quickly cover ground and escape a aggressor, and KO'ers really need nothing more then health in case the target is something strong that fights back and some Melee to increase the amount of torpor inflicted by the clubs

Best tame on the game! Had so much fun with mine, knocking out of dino's with club, mining, killing.... Can so so much! Even knocked out my 150 shark with it.

Just don't leave it on passive RIP 260 mantis :(

Have a tribe mate land on the mantis with a wyvern. They won't move for the entire taming process.

Advice:
-Aquire mantis
-Level melee as much as possible
-Equip with ascendant wooden clubs
-Ultimate wyvern knockout machine

The mantis Lays eggs more often in the Desert (the desert also has 100% wind)

If you and your tribe mate work together and have a wyvern. Use it to pin the mantis and you won't have to chase it. Have someone stay on the wyvern and taming is easy. Good luck!

Be warned that they have a fairly long range pounce, and do good damage. Don't fight these unless you're truly prepared.

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.

Wear Ghillie armour and big repellent to get close to feed horns.
To avoid it running off, have a friend agro towards a pen then begin taming as stated.

BEST GATHERING CREATURE EVER! can use tools (pickaxe, sichle, hatchet, sword, club, pike) to harvest everything u want! u need them to gather in "industrial"-amounts...!!!

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 you are taming these for their Eggs, make sure to place them in an area that's "Unknown" (changed to "Wilderness" in recent patch). It'll quadruple your Egg harvest. Just leave render range for 5-10 minuted, come back and collect your eggs. They can also be egg-boosted by a Oviraptor now so make sure one is in range.

The best way to deal with a mantis is to use fire. Use flame throwers, fire wyverns, or oil jars.

Just take a death worm horn and shove it up it’s ass

As much as I hate to admit seeing as how ankys are my favorite tame, this thing equipped with acended pick gets crystal better than the anky. at least anky still number one in metal.

Plus one to have Dododex to include this things eggs are used in comfort food for jerboas