Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
The best way to deal with a mantis is to use fire. Use flame throwers, fire wyverns, or oil jars.
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)
Parking a wyvern on it will make it disappear. Had it happen twice
Can't be Bolaed
Don't try to and be me
Using a deinonychus will get you a really good amount of organic polymer from these guys. This is whay I do in asgard in Fjordur.
I mean theae guys are super useful but kinda expensive to tame
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.
Procoptodon will hold mantis up to 28% maturation
As of the latest update, these can now be tamed with rhino horns, though with lower effectiveness.
When Raising Babies, they eat Spoiled Meat !
So these are a passive tame, get some bug repellent ( make it ok a mortar or a chem bench and you’ll need; narc, lemons, carrots and pelt)
You will also need Deathworm horns for the actual taming, put them in the last slot on the quick access bar.
Find the Mantis that you want, use the bug repellent (you’ll get about 400 seconds) and no insects will agro by you being near them. Approach the mantis from behind and feed them to it.
It may takes more than one feed? If that’s the case be aware that the mantis will agro for a bit.
Me and my tribemate reinacted Star Wars
We got two mantis by a lava lake and gave them decent swords as the rest of the tribe watched
I went onto the high ground and he went to the low ground with the lava in between us
“It’s over Anakin, I have the high ground!”
“You underestimate my power.”
“Don’t try it.”
he leaped to wards me and I sliced but missed cause he got deflected off the rock and then fell into the lava
“You were my brother Anakin,”
“I loved you,”
Then we had to get him a fjordhawk to grab his stuff but eh it was pretty entertaining especially as he cried in agony at the loss of his stuff when I said the last lines
Man Kenobi is leng
There is a great video on how to kill death worms very early game on YouTube by a guy named fresonis which involves using oil jars and flaming arrows to kill it and catch it on fire while it moves underground. This strategy is great for early game players with limited resources as it only takes around 4-5 oil jars and flame arrows to kill a level one death worm. This is a great way to farm horns for mantis taming.
Fjourder now has dead death worms in the volcano area, and you can harvest their horns, in the oil deltas!
Best place to get deathworm horns is in the ice cave on Ragnarok, can run in with a couple decent Deinonychus' or a Thyla and just shred them and they spawn frequently enough that by the time you get to the boss room and turn back you've got a bunch!
Use bug repellent to get close to tame