Mantis baby eats SPOILED MEAT. Happy breeding :).

If you equip an ascendant club (or any club really) you can use the mantis as an effective taming mount I knock out rexes and carnos with it

Theziosaur: I'm the ultimate harvester!!!
Mantis: Hold my beer bruh.

Oh great! It's a non violent tame! This is gonna be..AHHHHH!!!!!

You should be able to breed them but the female eats the male

Use a mantis with a wooden club and you can knock out things or scissors they somehow work I knocked out a level 56 pacer with a mantis with a club

They added mantis babies in the newest update, I can’t wait to see what kinds of Mantis mutations there can be!

(To person below me) The reason it doesn't harvest anything is because you need to give it the correlating tool for the job, for example, to harvest minerals, give it a pickaxe, for wood an axe, you can give it a sword too but it's unarmed attack is better.

Don't listen to the guy that said unarmed attacks from the mantis is better. A sword can easily increase it's attack to the 3-4 digits

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

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

Advice:
-Aquire mantis
-Level melee as much as possible
-Equip with ascendant wooden clubs
-Ultimate wyvern knockout machine

Mantis eggs may bug out . I was ecited to get my first to raise and my mantis pop the egg but there was no egg¡¡¡¡ wdf

Since TLC 3 , this creature is breedable. You cannot pick up it's fertilized eggs , so make sure you have a proper breeding area.

If you are on extinction and is doing a element run, just give this thing two metal pickaxes.

Can get more hide then a few 5 stars like the direwolf and sabertooth with a metal hatchet in its hand even tho the wiki says it's only a 4 star.

1 mantis, 1 Asc hatchet or pick, 1 swamp, endless mushrooms

Best way to farm an element vein. Get an Ascendant Pickaxe and swing away. Do the outer ones first. Level only melee. Weight doesnt matter because in the end you want more element and can just carry it on your flyer.

They can hold any tool and are the best at gathering almost everything.

For those who don’t know, these guys can hold tools (hatchet, pick, sword) in their hands. Very useful for harvesting.