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MANTIS
The Mantis is a carnivore found on 9 maps, with a drag weight of 200. Tamed, it harvests Mutagel and Metal better than most creatures. It is rideable once you have the level 45 saddle.
Stat Calculator
point distribution & extractionRoll Quality
how lucky these wild points areMantis at a glance
the game's own base values — the calculator above levels them| Stat | Base (level 1, wild) | Per wild level | Per tamed level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 275 | 55 | 2.7% |
| Stamina | 150 | 15 | 10.0% |
| Oxygen | 150 | 15 | 10.0% |
| Food | 900 | 90 | 10.0% |
| Weight | 220 | 4.4 | 8.0% |
| Melee Damage | 100% | 3% | 1.7% |
| Movement Speed | 100% | — | 1.0% |
| Torpidity | 350 | 21 | — |
A wild Mantis starts at 275 health and 100% melee damage. Its drag weight is 200, which decides what can carry it. The saddle engram unlocks at level 45. Killing one gives 2 base XP.
Taming food: Deathworm Horn, Woolly Rhino Horn.
Breeding: lays an egg, incubating in 2h 46m, and the baby matures in 2d 6h 27m with 6 imprints available. The egg needs 35–38°C to incubate . Mating cooldown runs 18h to 2d.
Immobilised by: Chain Bola, Bear Trap, Plant Species Y.
Best at gathering: Mutagel, Metal, Obsidian, Stone, Oil.
Drops on death: Raw Meat, Organic Polymer, Chitin.
Taming Calculator
Lv 150 · knockoutHow You Get One
method, in order
Deathworm Horns — with 
Bug Repellant on, or it attacks on sight. Step by step
- Apply Bug Repellant before you get close. Ghillie Armour helps but is optional.
- Put a Deathworm Horn — or a
Woolly Rhino Horn — in the last slot of your hotbar and feed it. - Wait a few minutes between horns; it will not take them back-to-back.
Also true
- A box trap it half-sticks out of lets you feed it with no repellant at all.
Holding it still
Chain BolaFired from a Ballista or 
Harpoon Launcher. Grounds flyers and pins them where they land.
Bear TrapPlace it, kite the creature over it. Holds long enough to get darts in.That's the full list — nothing else immobilizes a Mantis, per the game's own immobilizer table (drag weight 200).
Taming at a glance
a level 150, at official 1× rates| Level | Deathworm Horn | Time | Effectiveness | Bonus levels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 3 | 18m 00s | 99.6% | +14 |
| 60 | 4 | 24m 01s | 99.4% | +29 |
| 90 | 5 | 30m 01s | 99.3% | +44 |
| 120 | 6 | 36m 01s | 99.2% | +59 |
| 150 | 8 | 48m 01s | 98.9% | +74 |
Every number in this card is at official 1× rates, with the fastest food. Taming speed and food consumption multipliers change all of it, and most servers are not on official — the calculator at the top of this tab takes your rates, a Sanguine Elixir, and every other food this creature will eat.
Effectiveness is what decides the bonus levels: every unit of food eaten costs a slice of it, so the food that needs the fewest units finishes at the highest level. That is why kibble is worth the trouble — not that it is much faster, but that it is fewer feedings.
Timers
start them when you knock it outServer Rates
every number on this tab is calculated at these ratesBreeding
egg → adultDrops & Harvest
On death
Abilities
what it does and how you trigger it 
- Hit Primary attack
The Mantis hit the target for 34 damage.
5 stamina · 0.89s cooldown - Leap Primary attack
The Mantis leaps at the target for 120 damage.
40 stamina · 0.45s cooldown
- 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.
Details
everything else the game files recordWhere it turns up
pages that mention this one8- Desert Cavecave guide · Extinction
- Grave of the Tyrantslives in this cave · Scorched Earth
- Old Tunnelslives in this cave · Scorched Earth
- Rockwell's Proliferationlives in this cave · Genesis: Part 2
- Ruins of Nosticave guide · Scorched Earth
- Sunset Cavelives in this cave · Lost Island
- The Great Trenchlives in this cave · Valguero
- Vulcano Cavelives in this cave · Astraeos
