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
Mantis

What ARK players use the Mantis for, and how to get the most out of it in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
The alternate attack does harvest way more than the regular attack. Doing it on element veins you will gather much more element and shards than dust. Vice versa with regular attack.
The most valuable pet for mining on element veins in extinction.
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.
I would not suggest giving these things primitive items. Give them better stuff instead because they blow through durability when mining rocks. And also, if they break their tool, don’t share your own. They’ll break that too. 😂
(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.
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 👍😁👍
BEST GATHERING CREATURE EVER! can use tools (pickaxe, sichle, hatchet, sword, club, pike) to harvest everything u want! u need them to gather in "industrial"-amounts...!!!
If you are on extinction and is doing a element run, just give this thing two metal pickaxes.
These guys are CRAZY for knocking stuff out, just get an ascendant club, put it in it's hand and level all points into melee. Just knocked a 140 Rex in like 5 hits
Give it clubs and set it to “only target awake peeps” and tell it to attack something you wanna tame (don’t mount) wait a bit then you have a tamed giga
Good luck with the giga!
When finishing a element vein on extincion make sure to easily harvest the normal spreads with Yutyrannus buff. For the main one hit the elementvein till it has about 1.6hp left. At the end use the jump attack and harvest it. You will get so much element.
The mantis can gather a lot of different resources with your tools and yea i know that these tools gather less but i think efficiency over quantity and I’m here to tell you what gathers best.
Metal pick—black peals, crystals, flint, hide, metal, obsidian, raw meat, peals…
The mantis can gather a lot of different resources with your tools and yea i know that these tools gather less but i think efficiency over quantity and I’m here to tell you what gathers best.
Metal pick—black peals, crystals, flint, hide, metal, obsidian, raw meat, peals, thatch, mutagel, salt, and element shards.
Metal hatchet—chitin, keratin, pelt, raw fish meat, stone, wood, and sand.
Metal sickle—fiber, and raw prime fish meat.
Wooden club”THE BEST PART”—organic polymer, and knocks out Dino's real quick.
They can hold any tool and are the best at gathering almost everything.
Raise on spoiled meat, not raw. They eat 13,000 raw meat in 24 hours & only 3,000 spoiled
They can literally gather every resource in the if equipped with the right tools.
Equip with sword or any melee weapon and set a large radius for a leash and set to wander on aggressive so if any dino or players try to come you are prepared, good defense, recommend multiple high level around gates or around camps.
He atualy better than anyhavester than any one because you can up grade tools to asendent and harvest more and faster
They lay the most eggs in an unknown region. One is in the dessert near the blue obby.
They don't need sickles to gather fiber, they gather fiber like a pro!