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Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Mantis in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.

EASY FIBER

You will need-

Mantis

Metal sickle

Mantis saddle

Go to a place with a lot of bushes, give the mantis your sickle and go to town on the bushes and boom, fiber town

They will often times aggro onto walls and animals behind walls which will slowly reset the taming bar so be prepared to deal with some majob frustration when attempting to tame high level ones. Seems once they start attacking a structure they won't get unaggroed until the…

When taming 2 or more at a time make sure they are far enough away from each other so when the first one finishes the second won't eat it.

Build a 2x1 house lead mantis into house place back walls wait for it to deaggro then you can feed it through the wall

For taming it safely, build a one on one house with 3 Walls, lead it into the house and put the last wall.

If She attack the wall, go far and cameback.

They lay incredibly few eggs, but the amount goes up if they're in an area marked as Unknown Region on the map.

-5 points🔧 Utility9 years oldReport

A raptor can easily kill these guys (a high leveled one of course). I'd always take my level 220 raptor to the desert and let her just go on a hunting spree and do her thing by killing these guys. I'd then leave with 300+ chitin and polymer. My raptor only lost 400…

-4 points🔧 Utility6 years oldReport

They can hold items in their hands, put 2 swords in and watch your killing samurai machine rampage, slicing everything and anything in your path.

-4 points🔧 Utility6 years oldReport