How to tame a Mantis?

[Valkol]

Tier 2 animal trap did nothing, im guessing i need tier 3-4?

[Drudackus]

Some Mantis' drop eggs, which you can put in the incubator.

[Valkol]

Originally posted by Drudackus:

Some Mantis' drop eggs, which you can put in the incubator.

ahhhh that makes sense, THANKS!

[Space Cowboy]

Traps do not work at all against mantises and red mantises. I tested the superior traps and they had no effect. The critters just ignored them and even walked right through them.

[Drudackus]

They might. I suspect the mechanic works in a similar manner to the treats from earlier versions of the game, meaning the bug needs to be taken down to less than 50% health in order for the treat, now trap, to work. I am uncertain if the chance of success increases as the damage increases.

[william_es]

Its far easier to just kill them until you get a mantis egg, and then incubate that. Once the incubation is finished (and you defeat the attack), the egg hatches into a tamed mantis.

You need to kill a lot of mantis if you want to make the mantis armor, so good chance you'll get an egg. As an extra bonus, the incubating egg will be attacked by more mantis, so free mantis loot! Delivered to your doorstep. Wooot woot.

[Drudackus]

Originally posted by william_es:

Its far easier to just kill them until you get a mantis egg, and then incubate that. Once the incubation is finished (and you defeat the attack), the egg hatches into a tamed mantis.

You need to kill a lot of mantis if you want to make the mantis armor, so good chance you'll get an egg. As an extra bonus, the incubating egg will be attacked by more mantis, so free mantis loot! Delivered to your doorstep. Wooot woot.

Yes, I highly recommend you build solid defences around the incubator, with an air gap between it and the walls. Its no fun finally getting an egg and loosing it when the raiding mantis' destroy the incubator. But there's plenty more where that came from.

[Lastig]

the million dollar questions are
Can the red mantis drop red mantis eggs?
Is there a chance to get a red mantis from the egg instead of a green mantis?

[william_es]

Originally posted by Lastig:

the million dollar questions are
Can the red mantis drop red mantis eggs?
Is there a chance to get a red mantis from the egg instead of a green mantis?

No clue. All the green mantis eggs I've hatched have produced more green mantis. But I don't have a huge sample pool to work from.

[Space Cowboy]

Originally posted by Drudackus:

They might. I suspect the mechanic works in a similar manner to the treats from earlier versions of the game, meaning the bug needs to be taken down to less than 50% health in order for the treat, now trap, to work. I am uncertain if the chance of success increases as the damage increases.

Nope. Traps have no effect at all on mantises. Even at 100% health, a trap will still trigger for any other critter. Mantises are entirely immune to traps just like the wasp queen, ancient frog, frog & viper. And yes, that's both green and red mantises.

[FastyMcBrick]

So i got a mantis egg and for some reason its not letting me put it in the slot for the incubator but i was still able to get the cockroach :/