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3703 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 4, 2016   Report

Do not be me and knock out a 150 after searching 3 hours coming to realize it's a passive tame.

1463 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 27, 2021   Report

They can tame fast with rhino horns. Up so Dododex can change the info please and thank you

1779 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Sep 6, 2020   Report

These should have something else to tame them with besides horns. Like a kibble, spoiled meat, etc. don’t you agree?

52 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 6, 2025   Report

As you may know, in the wild, when praying mantises breed the female mantis will more often than not rip off the head of its male counterpart and consume it. On the ark, the mantises are equipped with significantly more intelligence, enough for the males to realize that making a move on a female will probably lead to its end. Because of this, male mantises completely avoid all sexual intercourse. Unfortunately, this leaves every single mantis very horny. So to solve this problem, all a survivor must do is sneak up behind said mantis and shove a huge, long, thick horn straight up its ass. The wave of pleasure it feels will instantly make it your loyal slave forever. Although a big rhino horn is big enough to tame them, the sheer size of a huge death worm horn will satisfy them significantly more. And that is why you tame mantises with horns

Well that’s my theory anyway

588 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jul 15, 2022   Report

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

- Tatakae5339

822 points   🔧 Utility   Nov 8, 2020   Report

Mantis baby eats SPOILED MEAT. Happy breeding :).

895 points   🔧 Utility   Nov 25, 2019   Report

Theziosaur: I'm the ultimate harvester!!!

Mantis: Hold my beer bruh.

1077 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 6, 2016   Report

Kill every vulture in area if can. They will aggro on mantis and make tameing bar restart.

549 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 10, 2020   Report

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.

380 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 18, 2021   Report

Mantis can now be tamed with Wooly Rhino Horns

262 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jul 14, 2022   Report

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

657 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 7, 2016   Report

The mantis can be used to tame other creatures by equipping clubs. The higher the melee of the mantis and the club, the faster you can knock things out

625 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 6, 2016   Report

The most versatile of Scorched Earths creatures. A Mantis can hold the roles of multiple different creatures depending on the tools or weapons it has equipped. Picks and Hatchets make them ultimate harvesters, Pikes and Swords can turn them into deadly combat mounts and Clubs can allow them to quickly down creatures for taming, they have no need for Sickles since they can harvest fiber by default. However you'll need to level it's stats depending on the role you plan to assign it to. For example, if you want too make a Mantis a harvester weight and Melee are what you'll want to go for, if you want it to be a expert at combat health and Melee with some stamina in case things go wrong and you have to flee are the way to go since there pounce attack is enough to quickly cover ground and escape a aggressor, and KO'ers really need nothing more then health in case the target is something strong that fights back and some Melee to increase the amount of torpor inflicted by the clubs

7 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 29, 2025   Report

Put an wooden club in the mantis hands and you've got an op Dino for taming

522 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 14, 2017   Report

Advice:

-Aquire mantis

-Level melee as much as possible

-Equip with ascendant wooden clubs

-Ultimate wyvern knockout machine

16 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 1, 2025   Report

Eat bug repellant

Apply ghilly suit

Sneak up behind

Shove death worm horns up its boots hole

460 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 30, 2016   Report

Use bug repellent and cactus broth when taming, this makes agro range literally 0.

440 points   🔧 Utility   Jan 11, 2017   Report

Best tame on the game! Had so much fun with mine, knocking out of dino's with club, mining, killing.... Can so so much! Even knocked out my 150 shark with it.

Just don't leave it on passive RIP 260 mantis :(

182 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jul 14, 2021   Report

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!

260 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 21, 2018   Report

Just take a death worm horn and shove it up it’s ass

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