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

Get a wyvern with 9k hp and 400% melee, a Rex with 7.5k hp and 400% melee, or a rock elemental and you can kill deathworms to get horns.

To tame this creature you should first make sure you have a few extra horns(obtained by killing a death worm) just in case something went wrong. To tame it you will need to either tame it in the desert which is very dangerous, or have yourself or someone else pick it up with a…

If you are to tame a mantis I would recommend you try to tame it where it is far away from anything that it can Agro on or else you will have to start over. Don't tame these guys in big numbers I'd reccomend, at most, two at a time so you don't get distracted or…

Can be found in caves or the open desert areas of scorched earth. Flame arrows work really well against them if you want to kill. Chainsaws gather lots of organic polymor from them which can be used instead of normal polymor

Equip the Mantus with a high quality weapon and it becomes a killer of great power on par with the dire bear or Chalicotherium rock throw.

-7 points🔧 Utility7 years oldReport

Build 1 Foundation, (Adobe,Stone, or Metal) four walls on the first level, three on the second leaving one open, attach a ramp to the open section, if you can successfully drop the mantis in, it will remain still for the duration, and no repellant or broth required.

Valguero Taming Guide: Mantises spawn at the bottom of the Wyvern Scar. To tame them, first you will need to go to Scorched Earth and wall around the North, West, and South deserts at the perimeter of the map. Each circuit around the map should give you 5-10 horns. Horns can…

You can Equip it with Pike, Stonepick, Metalpick, Stone Hatchet, Metal Hatchet and Metalsickle and use the Mantis for farming.

-9 points🔧 Utility9 years oldReport

Don't use taming pen for these creatures! They really hate being near anything and will ignore your horns even if you have ghillie and bug repellant if they're in a pen! Just do the sneak behind its back technique. Up this so people can know!

On genesis 2 when the supply drops turn purple that means there is element on the lunar. 🤔 happy farming

-6 points🔧 Utility5 years oldReport