making a mount

[kefremthemagus]

ive watched a video where he just hatched a mantis and just climbed on? how does one make a mount actually? ive seen videos where you need incenses or some such thing then another where you hatch the egg and just climb on.

[william_es]

You have to incubate an egg in a special structure you build.

Which means you first need to find an egg. They're random loot found on the bodies of dead creatures you've killed. If you want a mantis egg, you have to kill mantis.

Starting the incubation process will cause the incubator structure to get attacked. A group of enemies will get spawned, and approach the incubator. When they reach it, they try to destroy it. They may also attack the rest of your base as well, and frequently will. Depending on what they are, they can do extensive damage to your base. The dragonflies were especially annoying as they do fly by attacks that damaged dozens of individual base parts in each pass.

There are defenses you can build, like spikes. Be aware though, if you're in the treetops, the branches curve downwards and you can't place spikes past a certain curvature. The places where you can't place spikes ARE where the attackers can still crawl along, so they will just go around either end of a wall of spikes. Whole system needs a littttttleeeeeee bit more work there.

Once you kill the attacking waves, then it's simply a matter of waiting for the timer to run out, and you remove the incubated egg. Use it from your inventory, and it spawns the creature in the world. It's automatically tamed. Mantis don't need or require any kind of saddle, you can just mount and ride it.

There's a whole other way to tame creatures, involving traps you have to build and add special baits too. It replaced the old system where you made specific treats for specific creatures. There was a bait for taming geckos, one for spiders, etc. The new system I guess allows us to tame anything?? I have no real clue, I haven't engaged with the new trap system yet. I have just been killing creatures for the resources (like mantis body parts to make the new mantis armor), and hatching the random eggs I get using the incubator.

[kefremthemagus]

is it possible to get a damselfly egg and tame one that way?

[Keldar]

Originally posted by kefremthemagus:

is it possible to get a damselfly egg and tame one that way?

As far as i know yes. Haven't hunted damsys yet. But ive got a few dragonflyes

[Vorath]

Do frogs or vipers drop eggs or is there even a way to tame those at all?

[william_es]

Originally posted by Vorath:

Do frogs or vipers drop eggs or is there even a way to tame those at all?

Far as I know, they can't be tamed.

The only big animals we can tame now are the mouse. You have to find a mouse nest, and get a baby mouse out of it.

[Mighty]

Be carefully when you hatch the mouse.. 3 of them suddenly appeared and crashed my entire base

[lost_in_web]

there's a trick...
the raid always comes from the same place (it changes if you change tree),
so.
find an an egg (easy raid), spot the hole where they come.
go there and build all around the hole spikes and wall (to force the bugs to go straight).
done.
remember that flying bug will avoid the spikes anyway.