You can grapple hook them but once you shoot them it makes you ungrapple

Stop wasting your time trying to chase these guys with your longneck you will never catch them. The easiest way to tame the king of the air 👑 is to fly close to them using a PT or RG then dismount and use a Sinomacrops to land on there back. Once on their back, aim for their eye and unload your darts (or arrows) into their regal face. Make sure they are not above water when you knock them out. (Trust me I've done it multiple times. 😭) Congrats you can now take your first (or second?) Quets.

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I tried on tame one but I can’t find one so 10 minutes later I found one but then I put a net on it and it fell down right next to a Rex and the Rex Ate it.

How to tame a LOW LEVEL Quetzal:

1:Kill a quetzal

2:get it’s implant

3 revive them in a closed space

4 :knock it out

5: put food and narcotics or biotoxins

6: wait

7:wait more(feed it a narcotic or a biotoxin every minute)

8: you have a quetzal!

The easiest way to tame is to fly close to it with a Tapejara, shoot it down with an Apprentice or MasterCraft Longneck Rifle, and revive at the Red Obelisk after you build a trap. Stealing it's egg will not make it aggro I already tried

I just used a wyvern unmounted shot then unmounted again over and over took about 40 tranq darts with a master craft long neck with 179 damage but i missed half then just fed it prime meat took about 30 min

On rag, use a griffin and tranq darts... you can shoot from the back of the griffin while flying.... Just watch where the Quetzal lands and be prepared to kill the wild dinos round it when it does fall, like so people can see.

These things are a pain to tame, if you don’t get enough headshots on high leveled ones or don’t have a quick Tapejara or Argentavis then you can let that 135 quetz run away to sweet home Alabama. This is personal experience because I just tamed a 135 quetz, took me more than 20 tries using save states on mobile. Worth it tho, came as a level 202 with monsterous stats

I live by red obelisk and farm the spawn point and cannot find one how do you find them tell me plz I need one everyone says they are so good and I am desperate I have every thing Tapejara , Rex kibble ,taming boost, and tranq darts

Can u use a rare flower to get it to follow u or will it run away

The person who said they don’t spawn in the arctic and redwoods is incorrect. I have found these guys everywhere including those area’s. I was riding a air mount when these guys spawned and I was in the Arctic area. And I found 2 in the red forest and 1 with 2 titanasaurs

If you have a griffin or tapejara taming it isn't a problem its just a matter of finding one on mobile its one of the more rare creatures I would say near red, green and blue obelisk you will have the most chance of finding one.

This solo knock out strategy is better than the grapple hook ones. So, all you need is:

-A Tapejara with a saddle

-Crossbow or Gun with tranq arrows/darts

-And of course taming food

-Just in case, bring some parachutes

So, after locating your Quetz, board the front seat of the Tapejara (passenger) and whistle 'attack this target' on the Quetzal. If it's too far, whistle attack on other creatures until it's airborne. When it is, whistle "move here" in the air, so you can follow the Quetzal without harming it. While you chase it you can tranq it down with AIMING! And you can control your Tapejara easily. Boom.

*Make sure the Quetzal lands somewhere safe

Third way didnt see it but riding a Griffen just hit it with a net gun and follow to the ground. Toss up like 4 5 gates over and a door on each end so it can't fly and knockout however you want.

use griffins or Rhynios it’s easier if you have them

first TAME griffin or tapejara and tame low level quetzal and second if you tame quetzal buy in store saddle and buy saddle platform or if you have it and you have and build in trap to the platform fly it trap it the quetzal in the trap platform saddle

Using raw meat and raw prime meat but they're hard to find

Net Gun with at least 20-30 nets. Head shots with high damage% dart gun. Bring Narcotics, Metal spikes, and a lawn chair. This is gonna take a min.

If anyone says that the eggs are too sensitive, lemme tellyou this: you can hatch the egg at the blue obelisk on mobile with a rather rinse-and-repeat method once you have fur armor:

-Use three campfires during the day. Make sure the egg is leaning against them to provide adequate shielding against the harsh winter environment.

-Put the egg away at nighttime, as during this time it will be too cold for the campfires to have any effect. (This might be skippable with the use of a Dimetrodon, provided you have leveled it sufficiently for Melee damage, planning to do research on this).

-While the night is upon you, you have 3 options: A. Gather wood and thatch in equal amounts, using your Quetzal to defend you if things go sour, as well as to transport the materials. B. Build a bed at the Blue Obelisk, suicide and then use it to skip the night. And C. Transport the egg somewhere warmer for the night to avoid having to wait. (Option B is probably the most viable)

-Repeat when its daytime again. Follow these steps until your egg hatches. (Keep the egg in a storage closet or inventory such as that of your Quetzal at night to prevent it from despawning while you gather for wood)

Hopefully your little Quetzal will hatch using this method. Might be different on other platforms, but its this way on mobile, plus having to wait only 3 hours and a half whereas Ive heard on other platforms hatching a Quetzal takes 18, so you’re really better off here on mobile.

Hope it helps.

I used a tapejara .set it on follow.Then it won't go down