Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

You can equip the mantis with a pickaxe to let him harvest stuff. We found this especially good when doing an element vain on extinction. After you killed everything, instead of hitting every individual thing you can get all the element at once when using the mantis. Just hit the main vain once and youβll get everything.
More Mantis Utility Tips
Mantis baby eats SPOILED MEAT. Happy breeding :).
Theziosaur: I'm the ultimate harvester!!!
Mantis: Hold my beer bruh.
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
Advice:
-Aquire mantis
-Level melee as much as possible
-Equip with ascendant wooden clubs
-Ultimate wyvern knockout machine
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 :(
Equip with sword or any melee weapon and set a large radius for a leash and set to wander on aggressive so if any dino or players try to come you are prepared, good defense, recommend multiple high level around gates or around camps.
Why is there not an option to add a mantis with a club in the weapons option for Dododex??
The mantis is one of my favorite creatures, so I will do a guide for it. #1. The mantis is aggressive, and will attack you. They usually are found in the Desert, in packs of three. They have 2 attacks: the first is a standard melee swipe, and the other is kinda like a pounce. #2. It is tameable, but the way is hard. First, you will need Bug Repellent, then you will need Rhino horns ( kill woolly rhinos). The Ghillie is optional, but you definitely need bug repellent: just stay behind the Mantis. If you find a pack, kill the ones you donβt want, and tame. #3. It has a saddle, and you can give it weapons and tools. All known items I know it can give it are Picks, Hatchets, Sickles, Swords, and I think Pikes. The tools behave the same way when you use them. This is my guide to the Mantis, and I hope it is useful! Signed, Pickle844Luvr
This baby is wild!
I went to a metal harvesting location to try it out and let's just say I had two fully loaded argy's with a total weight capacity of like almost 3000 plus another 500 on the mantis within no time at all.
Genuinely, distributing the metal to the argies took more time than harvesting what with the mantis one shot wrecking every metal deposit, jump to it or no.