Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
To tame a mantis one can follow all sorts of advice. Or one can approach them as one would a shadowmane. Build a 2x2 box with 2 walls high of stone and a single doorframe in there somewhere and 2 ramps (one wide is enough) and lead your prey inside. Replace the single doorframe with another wall. Get out of render distance to unaggro. Remove ramp to keep your specimen safer from predators. Feed it through the wall, you can even approach it's head. (I am tired of wasting the horns I chased down so there)
Note that getting them into a cage is significantly easier if you can choose a terrain, however this baby requires not merely an argy but a wyvern to carry. To get a wyvern, on Fjordur, get a Desmodus, wait til nighttime, sneak into nest and use realm teleportation. Nab egg as the black screen hits. Bring a fjordhawk just in case.
More Mantis Taming & KO Tips
Do not be me and knock out a 150 after searching 3 hours coming to realize it's a passive tame.
They can tame fast with rhino horns. Up so Dododex can change the info please and thank you
These should have something else to tame them with besides horns. Like a kibble, spoiled meat, etc. don’t you agree?
How to Tame a Mantis:
1. Absolutely obliterate some Deathworms because you’re a gigachad and don’t feel fear..or you can kill some Woolly Rhinos, that works too.
2. Prepare, get a full suit of ghillie armor and maybe some bug repellent just to be sure. Get your deathworm horns and make it to the desert or wherever you’re taming it
3. Find a nice Mantis, probably 145-150, sneak up on it and shove the horns right up it’s ass
4. Name your Mantis, they can hold a variety of tools, pickaxes, hatchets, swords and pikes, they also have a jump attack that’ll drain stamina but does quite a lot of damage
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Kill every vulture in area if can. They will aggro on mantis and make tameing bar restart.
Please don’t listen to the boy who said with bug repellant, ghille and cactus broth that the aggro range is “literally zero” cause it’s not.. you can get super duper close without aggravating it but you can’t get too close so still be careful and try not to stand so close you can touch it or it will STILL AGGRO.
Mantis can now be tamed with Wooly Rhino Horns
On Fjordur, you can find rocks in the volcano area that resemble fossilized Death Worms, which can be harvested for Death Worm Horns, making taming them much easier there, if you have the rest of the necessary equipment
If you only have a Gillie suit you usually require but repellant or something so it doesn't aggro while running up to it, however if you use death worm horns and run up really fast with Gillie behind it, you can sneak in a feed. Helps a lot of your taking speed it high because then it's a pretty much instant tame.
1. Build a 1x1 box, 2 walls high with a ramp or stairs on one side.
2. Get the snippy psycho to follow you into the box.
3. Once it's in there, run out of aggro range and come back.
4. Start taming with rhino or deathworm horns through the wall.
No ghillie or bug spray needed!