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.
Mantis
Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Mantis in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
If you are on extinction and is doing a element run, just give this thing two metal pickaxes.
I used an argy trap to get mine, couldnt get out and it was super easy to tame without it trying to attack innocent bystanders or run off
These guys are CRAZY for knocking stuff out, just get an ascendant club, put it in it's hand and level all points into melee. Just knocked a 140 Rex in like 5 hits
Give it clubs and set it to “only target awake peeps” and tell it to attack something you wanna tame (don’t mount) wait a bit then you have a tamed giga
Good luck with the giga!
Trapping them with a wyvern wings could make it despawn
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.
Parking a wyvern on it will make it disappear. Had it happen twice
When finishing a element vein on extincion make sure to easily harvest the normal spreads with Yutyrannus buff. For the main one hit the elementvein till it has about 1.6hp left. At the end use the jump attack and harvest it. You will get so much element.
Instead of feeding it when you have the bug repellent, Gilly suit and cactus soup all in your bloodstream… why not take a couple of billboards and trap the mantis..
I was able to do it using just two billboards.. the mantis body is very long.. so I use one billboard to…
Instead of feeding it when you have the bug repellent, Gilly suit and cactus soup all in your bloodstream… why not take a couple of billboards and trap the mantis..
I was able to do it using just two billboards.. the mantis body is very long.. so I use one billboard to block it from moving forward and the other one was put down right on top of its middle section…. It was trapped….
I left the area and it glitched out of the trap…
I was able to do it again though. So billboards are really convenient for the mantis provided that you have the Gilly suit and the bug repellent and the cactus soup in play.
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…
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.
Make sure to stick the horn really far up
Try with net and gillie armor ok
Really wish you could tame them on crystal isles
If using this mantis to grind out metal, take a set of clubs along with you. Ascendant clubs in a 400% Mantis will 1 - 4 hit most animals on the server.
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.
They can hold any tool and are the best at gathering almost everything.
Raise on spoiled meat, not raw. They eat 13,000 raw meat in 24 hours & only 3,000 spoiled
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)