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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for mantis? Tips and strategies for mantis in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Best place to get Deathworm horns is the Ice Queen cave on Ragnarock. Just take a Sabertooth and eat the easy male death worms. Easy horns they spawn back fast. Use them to tame the mantis.
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!
Gillie suit cactus broth and bug repellent..kill all other creatures near and around the mantis feed from behind.
Theres deathworm on ragnarok if u didnt knew so i wish it helps
You have to have horns deathmorm horns make taming faster put the horns in your last slot (putting on bug repellent helps) feed it horns until tamed (note if it sees you you will not de able to feed it)
The temperature you need to incubate the mantis egg is 37.
They spawn on Lost Island in the desert in the bottom of the map.
Make a 1x1 box. Pick up mantis. Drop in box.
You can now passive tame your scythe boy through the wall without bug repellent.
Your welcome.
For the guy who said to feed it thought the wall, THANK YOU! And it's absolutely faster taming it with deathworm horn
This creature CAN be tamed by WOLLY RHINO HORNS!!!!
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.
On fjordur there are free deathworm corpses on the volcano island around the tarpits. I got 8 from the 6 bodies laying around. No need to hunt those monstrous worms for one horn.
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.
I found 6 deathworm horns in a puprle supply drop on Crystal Isles, so if you really want to tame mantis on Crystal Isles look for purple supply drops.