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

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

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

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

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

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.

Mantis can now be tamed with Wooly Rhino Horns

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

If you only have a Gillie suit you usually require but repellant or something so it doesn't aggro while running up to it, however if you use death worm horns and run up really fast with Gillie behind it, you can sneak in a feed. Helps a lot of your taking speed it high because then it's a pretty much instant tame.

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!

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

While it is cheesy and very hard to pull off on most maps, if you can lure a mantis into swimming deep water, then they either chase after you and then lose agro and dive underwater or they lose interest immediately and return to shore. After they run back to land/dive, you can get a free feed while they swim back with next to no chance at an agro, plus their food drains a little quicker because of the swimming.

P.S this was already said by other people but my comment spreads the taming method easier (I'm blatantly stealing)

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

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

Best method I was told. Build a 2x2 stone [or wood if low] foundation with 2 high walls, drop in with flyer, feed through wall. Has a massive hitbox to feed it through if lured close to a wall. No repel needed with this method.

Eat bug repellant

Apply ghilly suit

Sneak up behind

Shove death worm horns up its boots hole

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.

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

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

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.