If for some reason you have tamed a shadowmane before a mantis, you can use their invis ability and feed the mantis

The mantis is one of my favorite creatures, so I will do a guide for it. #1. The mantis is aggressive, and will attack you. They usually are found in the Desert, in packs of three. They have 2 attacks: the first is a standard melee swipe, and the other is kinda like a pounce. #2. It is tameable, but the way is hard. First, you will need Bug Repellent, then you will need Rhino horns ( kill woolly rhinos). The Ghillie is optional, but you definitely need bug repellent: just stay behind the Mantis. If you find a pack, kill the ones you don’t want, and tame. #3. It has a saddle, and you can give it weapons and tools. All known items I know it can give it are Picks, Hatchets, Sickles, Swords, and I think Pikes. The tools behave the same way when you use them. This is my guide to the Mantis, and I hope it is useful! Signed, Pickle844Luvr

Eat bug repellant

Apply ghilly suit

Sneak up behind

Shove death worm horns up its boots hole

The mantis Lays eggs more often in the Desert (the desert also has 100% wind)

Up for breeding tips section pls

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

This baby is wild!

I went to a metal harvesting location to try it out and let's just say I had two fully loaded argy's with a total weight capacity of like almost 3000 plus another 500 on the mantis within no time at all.

Genuinely, distributing the metal to the argies took more time than harvesting what with the mantis one shot wrecking every metal deposit, jump to it or no.

You can lure them to water and feed them. There’s no need for bug repellent doing it this way I do it all the time and it works like a charm.

If you need deathworm horns go to 0,10 (northwest corner of the map) in Scorched Earth and just keep walking back and forth along the northern barrier, a deathworm should spawn in less than 5 minutes.

These guys eat rotten meat once tamed!!

Use bug repellant and a gillie suit. It allows you to get close without it attacking you.

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

Ok the creature you kill to tame the mantis are endgame but mantises are mid game that makes no sense

Be warned that they have a fairly long range pounce, and do good damage. Don't fight these unless you're truly prepared.

Eggs cannot be moved, much like bloodstalker. Cannot eat cooked meat or will starve.

If you have a wyvern and you’re on a map with an ocean you can pick the mantis and drop it in water, it won’t agro you and you can tame it without needing any ghillie armour or bug repellent.

Where do they spawn on lost island? Sky arrow if spawn deep in the desert

Best place to get Deathworm horns is the Ice Queen cave on Ragnarock. Just take a Sabertooth and eat the easy male death worms. Easy horns they spawn back fast. Use them to tame the mantis.

If you and your tribe mate work together and have a wyvern. Use it to pin the mantis and you won't have to chase it. Have someone stay on the wyvern and taming is easy. Good luck!

when breeding of you set male to breed first then use copy to others you can breed multiple females at the same time idk if you could always do this so now you know if you didn't 👍😁👍