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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.
the time is between
1.20min and 1.45min withe rino horns
Mantis are one of the best sources of organic polymer.
Kill em and chop em up with a chainsaw for best results.
You can pick a mantis up and drop it in a 1x1 box. After that, you can feed them through the wall to tame, no bug spray needed.
Try with net and gillie armor ok
Trapping them with a wyvern wings could make it despawn
The mantis can gather a lot of different resources with your tools and yea i know that these tools gather less but i think efficiency over quantity and I’m here to tell you what gathers best.
Metal pick—black peals, crystals, flint, hide, metal, obsidian, raw meat, peals, thatch, mutagel, salt, and element shards.
Metal hatchet—chitin, keratin, pelt, raw fish meat, stone, wood, and sand.
Metal sickle—fiber, and raw prime fish meat.
Wooden club”THE BEST PART”—organic polymer, and knocks out Dino's real quick.
Although they look menacing they are actually quite weak against other dinosaurs. You can kill those with an Argy. They give A LOT of organic polymer, so come prepared.
Make sure to stick the horn really far up
Parking a wyvern on it will make it disappear. Had it happen twice
Really wish you could tame them on crystal isles
Can lure into water and tame like an arthlo
They used to only eat Deathworm horns but there was an update, now they can eat wooly rhino horns as well.
Simply get bug repellent, ghillie, 3 metal bill boards and [insert taming food here]. Pop the big repellent and wear the ghillie go up to it and trap with bill boards. The you only need to crouch by its bum and shove horns up it when it asks you to.
You can find deathworm statues around the volcano on fjordur Midgard which when harvested give deathworm horns
Take a mated shadowmane pair and use the female aoe invisibility, enjoy the easy Taming :). (you can basically jump on the thing and it won't notice you)