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

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

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

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 :(

Have a tribe mate land on the mantis with a wyvern. They won't move for the entire taming process.

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

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!

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.

Wear Ghillie armour and big repellent to get close to feed horns.
To avoid it running off, have a friend agro towards a pen then begin taming as stated.

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.

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

Build a small trap that leads down to the one by one. Have the mantis walk ( lag ) itself in. Then you will be able to feed it through the wall. No need for ghilie or repellent

Trapping them in a building never worked for me. Even when not aggro i could not feed it. If taming in the desert use a flying combat mount. Use bug spray on the mount and yourself so you can land,dismount,feed and fly off clearing nearby dinos until next feed. This stops it aggroing on your mount and helps you avoid chasing it around on foot losing food/water

Don’t try to get them stuck under your wyvern and get off to solo tame them.. they will despawn mid tame.

Parking a wyvern on it will make it disappear. Had it happen twice

First make sure that the mantis is free from other animals. Take care of the mantis. Hug with a dragon or another big animal that does not attack the mantis. And then you can calmly give him the deadworm horns

I would highly suggest taking the mantis you want to tame to the dragon arena out in the desert using a wyvern/quetz. The area is enclosed and allows you to tame the mantis without wild disturbances.

If your trying to tame the mantis and you notice you can feed it. That means it's agro on you just not attacking. Fly away count to ten and go back to it you'll be able to continue the tame

Make sure you're not taming one durring a sandstorm, it will cause the taming meter to degrade.

Make sure there are no pegomastax around, they will steal every single one of your death horns if they are in your taming bar. They also seem to glitch into the earth even if you catch them so you will lose them regardless. Better to split then up and add them one at a time