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Mantis
Spawn Command
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cheat summon Mantis_Character_BP_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/ScorchedEarth/Dinos/Mantis/Mantis_Character_BP.Mantis_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35Variant Mantis (Gauntlet)
cheat summon Mantis_Character_BP_Gauntlet_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Gauntlet/Bog/Mantis_Character_BP_Gauntlet.Mantis_Character_BP_Gauntlet'" 500 0 0 35Variant Mantis (SummonedD)
cheat summon Mantis_Character_BP_Summoned_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Dinos/Summoner/SummonedDinos/Mantis_Character_BP_Summoned.Mantis_Character_BP_Summoned'" 500 0 0 35Variant Mantis (Gauntlet2)
cheat summon Mantis_Character_BP_STA_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Dinos/Mantis_Character_BP_STA.Mantis_Character_BP_STA'" 500 0 0 35Variant VR Mantis (Gauntlet2)
cheat summon Mantis_Character_BP_TameSTA_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Endless/Tames/Mantis_Character_BP_TameSTA.Mantis_Character_BP_TameSTA'" 500 0 0 35Variant VR Mantis (Maze)
cheat summon Mantis_Character_BP_CorrMaze_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Maze/CorruptedZone/Dinos/Mantis_Character_BP_CorrMaze.Mantis_Character_BP_CorrMaze'" 500 0 0 35 Preferred Food
Equipment
Mantis Saddle (Level 45)
Torch (Level 1)
Stone Pick (Level 1)
Stone Hatchet (Level 2)
Wooden Club (Level 8)
Whip (Level 20)
Scissors (Level 21)
Pike (Level 25)
Metal Pick (Level 20)
Metal Hatchet (Level 20)
Metal Sickle (Level 30)
Sword (Level 30)
Taxidermy Tool (Level 10) Unique Skins
Yes Incubation Range
Incubation Time
2h 46m 39.2s
Baby Time
5h 26m 47.843s
Juvenile Time
21h 47m 11.372s
Adolescent Time
1d 3h 13m 59.216s
Total Maturation Time
2d 6h 27m 58.431s
Breeding Interval
18h - 2d
Habitat
This variant spawns only during an Event
Common Rare
Untameable Cave
Untameable Cave
The Mantis is a small, carnivorous invertebrate known for its ability to use a multitude of tools in order to increase its combat prowess and harvesting capabilities.
It was first added in 
ARK: Survival Evolved with the Scorched Earth expansion pack on the 1st of September, 2016.
Basic Info
Dossier
This section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Helena Walker, the author of the dossiers, has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creature.
“
Species
Empusa discipulus
TimeHolocene
DietCarnivore
TemperamentAggressive
- Wild
The existence of a creature such as Empusa discipulus is both fascinating and frightening. Not only is Empusa the only recorded insect to have developed an opposable digit, allowing it to grip objects and use tools, but it possesses a level of intelligence that is unrivalled among non-human species. I have even found clear patterns in the sounds Empusa makes when communicating with its own kind, as though it is actually using some kind of dialect. I would love to study these interactions in depth, but observing Empusa up close is extremely dangerous. Its size, intelligence and ability to pounce on its prey from a great distance mean that one could be quickly swarmed and killed upon detection. Caution is recommended.
- Domesticated
Though a dangerous task, successfully taming Empusa can prove highly beneficial. Its unique claws allow it to wield melee weapons like spears or pikes in battle, and use tools while harvesting resources. This makes it deadly as a mount or footsoldier and highly efficient as a gatherer.
„
~ Helena
Behavior
Highly aggressive, it attacks any medium-size or smaller creature that enters its range.
Appearance
It looks just like an average Mantis but much larger and deadlier. It usually comes from a light green to a brown or a yellowish color.
Color Scheme and Regions
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Region 1:Unused
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Region 4:Top
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This section displays the Mantis's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Mantis. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Mantis will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.
This information can be used to alter the Mantis's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Mantis's "body" magenta.
Body
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Variants
Mantis Ghost
Mantis Ghost is a phantom creature that appear during Fear Evolved events. When you kill it you obtain the 
Mantis Ghost Costume to give your own tamed Mantis the look of a ghost.
VR Mantis
VR Mantis is the VR variant of Mantis found during some Missions in Genesis: Part 2. It is identical to the normal species except for its digitized coat. It is not tameable.
Drops
Base Stats and Growth
| Attribute | Base Value | Level Increase | Taming Bonus | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild | Tamed | Additive | Multiplicative | ||
 Health |
275 | +55 | +2.7% | 0.07 | |
 Stamina |
150 | +15 | +10% | ||
 Oxygen |
150 | +15 | +10% | ||
 Food |
900 | +90 | +10% | ||
 Weight |
220 | +4.4 | +8% | ||
 Melee Damage |
34 / 120 | +0.85 / +3 | +1.7% | 7% | 17.6% |
 Movement Speed |
100% | N/A | +1% | 67% | |
 Torpidity |
350 | +21 | N/A | 0.5 | |
- For a comparison of the stats of all creatures, see Base Creature Statistics.
- For an explanation of exactly how the levelup calculation works, see Creature Stats Calculation.
- 1These are the base speeds of the tamed creature at 100% Movement Speed, i.e. without a possible taming bonus.
- 2These are the speeds of the creature once tamed including a possible taming bonus and no imprinting bonus.
- For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds.
Wild Stats Level-up
Type in values of a wild creature to see on which stats it's emphasized. Green values on a high-level creature are very good for breeding. If you have already tamed your creature you can try to recover the breeding stats with an external tool.[1]
Mantis
The stat-calculator does not work in the mobile-view, see here for alternatives: Apps
Note that after the creature is tamed it gets bonuses on some stats depending on the taming effectiveness. This makes it hard to retrieve the levels on a tamed creature, so this tool is only for wild ones, but gives a first impression, how well the stats are distributed.
Abilities
Active
Hit    |
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Passive
Equipable Weapons
The Mantis can hold melee weapons on its forelegs and use them for their purposes, like harvest 
Wood or 
Stone with a Metal Hatchet, increasing its total damage per hit with a Pike or Sword, or increase the 
Torpor of its target using a Wooden Club.
Decomposer Diet
The Mantis recovers 10 
Health for each piece of 
Spoiled Meat that it consumes.
Combat
General
Mantises spawn in packs of around 2-3 individuals within caves and desert dunes. Due to their pounce attack they have a fairly large aggression range. Once one Mantis spots prey, the others usually follow. They will attempt to rapidly close the distance with an initial pounce before delivering an onslaught of rapid slashing attacks.
Strategy
Avoid close combat unless you have a strong enough mount or good gear. Due to the fact they spawn in packs they may often be mate-boosted, increasing the power of their fast and deadly attacks. If you don't think you can stand a close-up fight, ranged attacks with flame arrows or other powerful projectiles should do the trick easily.
Weaponry
In terms of ranged weaponry, stick with using arrow-based weapons such as the Bow and Crossbow since Mantises take reduced damage from bullets. In terms of tames, the Megatherium is by far the best option as it deals bonus damage to insects and when its Insect Killer buff activates you have very little to worry about, even if the Megatherium is low level. However most general combat tames of a decent level such as the Carno or a small pack of Raptors should be able to hold up against at least a couple encounters.
Dangers
BEWARE of Pounce at Mid Range: with Mantises often spawning in groups of 2-3, taking three hits of this powerful attack can deal tremendous damage. Since Mantises can be found in caves where close-quarters combat is prominent, survivors are at high risk of a swift death without powerful armor.
Weakness
Since the Mantis is an insect, you can use Bug Repellent to greatly reduce its aggression range and become practically invisible to it until you bump into it or attack. This also means that the Megatherium is their ultimate bane. In general, Mantises are not able to scale rocks/ledges well which allows survivors to get a height advantage within caves and use ranged attacks to put them down.
Taming
Taming Strategy
The Mantis is a passive tame, so avoid knockout methods.
To feed it, place a 
Deathworm Horn or 
Woolly Rhino Horn in the last slot of your hotbar, then when approached press "use" (default E) to feed it. You cannot feed them all the horns required for taming at one time, you must wait a few minutes after each feeding to give it the next one, and repeat until the taming meter is filled.
The Mantis is normally aggressive, so 
Bug Repellant is needed in order to get close enough to feed it. A set of 
Ghillie Armor is also useful, but not required. The Mantis becomes aggressive if you are too close. The taming progress will become halted until it loses interest in whatever it was fighting, or even decrease if it's aggressive for too long.
A good trap to tame the Mantis is a single foundation (Stone, Adobe, or Metal) with 4 walls on the first level, and 3 walls on the second level.[2] Lastly add two ramps to the last opening on the second level. Part of the Mantis will stick outside of the trap and you can feed it. You will not need any Bug Repellant or Ghillie Armor with this method.
Note: On the Ragnarok map, you can get the horns from the 
Deathworms in the desert or from the Iceworm Males in the Frozen Dungeon, where they provide a plentiful supply. However, given the high level of this dungeon, it might be safer to go to the desert. On 
Aquatica, you can use 
Monodon Horns as a substitute with the same taming affinity gain as Woolly Rhino Horns.
Preferred Food
Deathworm Horn
Note that the values are for optimal cases, always bring extra supplies!
For a level-dependent count of resources needed, try an external taming calculator.
Utility
Roles
- Utility Gatherer: The Mantis can equip a pick or hatchet, or even a sickle, allowing it to gather resources using these tools rather effectively when one does not have specialized mounts for such. Due to its ability to equip tools the Mantis can be used as a mobile light source by equipping it with a torch. (Level up Weight and Damage).
- Element Node Harvester: While you would need to port one from another map as the Mantises on Extinction are only found in a cave and therefore not tameable, the Mantis is an invaluable asset when it comes to harvesting element after completing an Element Node event. Equipped with a strong Metal Pick and melee/weight investment you can harvest all of the element veins much faster than if you were to do so on foot. This also conserves player stamina which therefore preserves food/water. Since tools are required to harvest element this way, the Mantis is the only creature that can fill this role.
- Soldier/Shock Trooper: The ability for the Mantis to wield melee weapons, including the Sword, allows it to be a fearsome combatant, but this also allows them to change up their tactics entirely by using a Wooden Club, inflicting Torpor damage against opponents as needed. Better weapons from better blueprints can massively increase the effectiveness of the mount's attacks, making this one of the only mounts where the quality of items other than the saddle is of great consequence. (Level up Health, Stamina and Damage).
- PvP Fighter: With the ability to turn in place and its lunging attack, the Mantis can hold a position very well in narrow areas, making it a good defensive creature to deter raiders, especially in caves. It can either go full damage with a Sword or utilize a Wooden Club to knock out the raiders and allow you to cage them, preventing them from respawning.
- Taming Mount: Using simple primitive Wooden Clubs, a high-level Mantis with average
Melee Damage is a competent taming mount. It can easily knock out most smaller creatures such as Pulmonoscorpius and Raptors with a pounce and a few standard bash attacks. With higher end clubs and higher melee, the increased torpor could allow for Mantis to be used on more difficult tames. With high quality clubs and mutation stacking it can easily KO high level 
Rexes and 
Brontosaurus, though creatures with low health-to-torpor ratio will likely be killed. A decent saddle is not necessary but strongly recommended. (Note: If looking to tame these creatures, try to KO them with the standard attack as the lunge attack deals 2 instances of damage, the latter of which will ruin taming effectiveness if the former hit causes the KO.) - Organic Polymer Farm: Having a Mantis breeding line could be beneficial both to get a powerful Mantis and to take advantage of bad offspring to obtain
Organic Polymer with a 
Chainsaw or 
Moschops with high Melee Damage stat and all harvesting leveling into organic polymer. It is recommended to wait until the Mantises reach the adolescent or adult stages in order to get more resources from their bodies. - Turkey Killer: While wielding a Sword, Pike or similar weapon, The Mantis ignores the damage reduction of the
Super Turkey, making them perfect for mass turkey slaughter during the Turkey Trial event. - Boss DPS: A highly mutated mantis can be (mainly on boosted unofficial servers) a great DPS in boss fights, possibly outperforming any other creature that can enter boss arenas in terms of both DPH and DPS. Spamming the jump (right click) attack can do massive damage to anything in its path. It can be particularly useful against the
Dragon as it is so small that when below it, the Dragon will not be able to do damage to it (beware of its minions). You have to, however, pay close attention to positioning of the boss and other tames/players not to get killed. You can also use a 
Karkinos for its grab ability and use two mate-boosted Mantis either whistling them to attack or having someone ride them, sadly, this disables the jump (right click) attack, which can seriously throttle the damage output. Mutate mainly for melee, level melee. Use a high quality Sword or Pike ( Sword is recommended, and bringing additional weapons to equip is also highly advised as the lunge attack consumes a lot of weapon durability.) - Genesis 2 knock-out mission specialist: Using a high quality Wooden Club, Mantis inflicts massive Torpidity using the leap ability (right click). Mantis can be used to help with Bulbdog Fetch, Maewing Poach and especially Paracer Roundup, where it seems to completely ignore the Torpidity resistance on Baby, Juvenile and Adolescent
Paraceratherium, applying full torpor as if they were Adult. The amount of Torpidity inflicted scales with Mantis melee damage and Wooden Club damage.
Collectibles
| Resource | Efficiency |
|---|---|
 Thatch
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★★★★★ |
 Mutagel
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★★★★★ |
 Flint
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★★★★★ |
 Silicate
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★★★★ |
 Hide
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★★★★☆ |
 Raw Meat
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★★★★☆ |
 Raw Salt
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★★★★☆ |
 Stone
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★★★★☆ |
 Sulfur
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★★★★☆ |
 Crystal
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★★★★☆ |
 Sand
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★★★★☆ |
 Wood
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★★★★☆ |
 Element Ore
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★★★☆☆ |
 Chitin
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★★★☆☆ |
 Metal
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★★★☆☆ |
 Cactus Sap
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★★★☆☆ |
 Fiber
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★★★☆☆ |
 Obsidian
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★★★☆☆ |
 Raw Prime Meat
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★★☆☆☆ |
 Organic Polymer
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★★☆☆☆ |
 Keratin
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★★☆☆☆ |
 Silk
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★★☆☆☆ |
Even though it looks like the Mantis is holding two tools/weapons, only a single one may be equipped at any time (the doubling is only visual).
Spotlight
Bugs
- When you leap with a tamed Mantis then move far enough away to unload the Mantis, it will constantly generate a wind effect that is triggered from leaping; the audio will endlessly loop until you make the Mantis leap again, which will stop the looping sound effect. This doesn’t fix it permanently, however, as it reoccurs every time the mantis gets unloaded and loaded again. To fix this, either log out and back in, or put the mantis into a cryopod. This bug seems to only occur in single player.
- When the saddle absorbs damage, the tool/weapon the mantis is holding will have its durability consumed, as if it were a piece of armor.
Notes/Trivia
For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Mantis, see the relevant Wikipedia article.
- The Mantis are one of if not the most intelligent creature in Ark even to the point of creating strategies that's only rivaled by
Troodon and the 
King Titan and is only for certain outmatched by 
Human, 
Overseer, 
Rockwell and 
Noglin.
- This is shown as according to the Mysterious Mystery Dossier, it's very intelligent, with four tick-marks for intelligence. The only other creature with four ticks is Troodon.
- Also similar to Troodon, the taming icon has a tick and an x, implying that it must be tamed in a unique way, as Troodon and Titanosaur are.
- This is also backed up as Dahkeya, in one of his explorer notes, reports that a group of Mantis destroyed a water pipe outside of town; knowing it would draw humans to come out to fix it, so the Mantis could hunt and feed. This shows extreme intelligence on the behalf of Ark's Mantis that perhaps even the Troodon doesn't have.
- Finally It also has a picture of the Crafting icon with two ticks, meaning that it can hold tools in its hands and the only other creatures shown to have enough intelligence to use tools is Humans.
- Like Karkinos and to a lesser extent Pulminoscorpius, a tamed Mantis prefers spoiled meat over raw and gains more Food and Health from it.
- You need to be at least level 40 to feed a Mantis.
- It's confirmed that the creature's alternate attack has increased harvesting capabilities.
- The dossier states that the Mantis may have their own language. Although this may seem far-fetched, many animals seem to have their own system of "language". Prairie Dogs have distinctly different warning calls for different predators; and Orcas from different parts of the world seem to have different "dialects", even "accents" in their calls and songs.
- Mantis do not produce
Feces. - Despite having wings it is not capable of flight.
- Prior to 316.18, Mantis couldn't be bred and would lay unfertilized eggs.
- While in the Dossier it is shown to have small hands at the second joint in their arm, and this is supposed to be how it holds items, it does not match the in game model.
- While a Mantis can wield a Lance, it does lower damage than without wielding one.
- The Mantis can be knocked out, however if they are, they can't be tamed if they are knocked out.
- Mantis cannot be grab by
Hover Skiff. - On the Nintendo switch mantis don’t ragdoll after they die.
Changelog
| Patch | ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
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| 246.0 | Mantis is added to the game. |
| 246.6 | Can no longer equip invalid saddles. |
| 247.1 | Fixed singleplayer crash reloading with Mantis Equipment. |
| 247.2 | Fixed crash with equipping weapons onto Mantis in singleplayer. |
| 256.2 | Fixed inability to drag and equip weapons onto Mantis with the newly introduced inventory UI. |
| 261.0 | Mantis now receive the  Oviraptor egg-laying buff.
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| 293.100 | Mantis now preffers  Superior Kibble.
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| 295.106 | Fix for weapons not equipping properly. |
| 315.2 | Mantis Ghost is added to the game. |
| 316.18 | Mantis are now breedable. |
| 318.9 | Fixed a bug which caused Mantis that was grown from the baby stage to be larger than tamed ones. |
| 319.14 | Fixed an issue where the baby mantis could float in the air. |
| 329.5 | VR Mantis is added to the game. |
| 330.8 | Mantis will now accept Rhino Horns for taming, at a lower affinity than Deathworm horns.
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| 331.7 | Adjusted Mantis Feeding to prevent it from starving when fed Rhino Horns.
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| 678.20 | Fixed a bug where Mantis was not able to harvest with tools. |
| Patch |  ARK: Survival Ascended Changes
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| 41.23 |
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| 43.8 | Fixed Mantis getting stuck in the air when leaping close to a target. |
| 51.3 | Fixed Mantis breeding range being too small. |
| 61.37 | Added Mantis spawn to Astraeos. |
Gallery
Torn Dossier
In-game Appearance
Mantis with Scissors
References
Categories:
- Invertebrates
- Carnivores
- Aggressive creatures
- Creatures released in v246
- Creatures released in 2016
- Creatures released in v739
- Creatures released in v501
- Creatures released in v601
- Creatures released in 2022
- Unavailable on Mobile
- Tameable creatures
- Rideable creatures
- Breedable creatures
- Creatures that can be ridden while wielding weapons
- Creatures that don't drop feces
- Creatures that lay eggs
- Incubation
- Creatures
- Extant creatures