i got to admit, I am a person who never evolves in Ark. Not even to metal, or tek. Neither grappling hooks. But I do have evolved tames. It was super hard for me to tame the Quetzal, because desired ones got away, and others were too high of a lvl. I had to tidy save so many times my Tapejara was sick of me and tried making me fall with all my narcotics inside of it up high in the air.

Finally I knocked out a blue male quetzal. I was dissapointed, but it was better than nothing. Quetzals are hard tames for me, and watch that torpor.. It falls down as quick as a therizino's. Any quetzal that you have, be grateful for it. For it shall serve you as a help with metal runs.

Short tip here:

1. Use tapejara make it sure that its follow you before you ride.

2. Make tapejara attack target and uncheck the collect victim item.

3.use crossbow and tranq arrow. Or darts. Bring rex kibble if dont use any you have berries or raw meat but it has slow taming use bio toxin for this.

4. When in ride attack the quetzal at the back of the tapejara .when you attack the quetzal tapejara will follow it and start to chasing it then you must careful the knockout dont knockout it in water.!!!!

5. After knockout taming it. 😍.

6. Make it sure no other creature or dino attacking it.

Thats all make it up

If help TIA.

Please tell me you all know the pain of taming a quetzal.

I went through about more than 10 quetzals, and 2 of them were knocked. Execept the first one woke up, and the second one died. Finally, I knocked a blue quetzal out on a mountain. (Btw, tidy saving and knocking quetzals took 2 irl days), the blue quetzal was tamed and I took it all the way back to my base. I just learned Quetz saddles aren't unlocked at lvl 71, so I got to do it the quest way. Killing argies quest will give you an ascendant saddle I think. But seriously, the main purpose of this is to tell you how hard it was to tame a quetzal. Ecspecially for people who used Tapejaras...

Most of the quetzals were too high of a lvl, and desired ones got away. Anyways have a good day...

These are very common on Crystal Isles.

I can only seem to find these directly after a dino wipe.

I play on The Island.

I tamed one alone on the center. I only use the best crossbow and 100 arrows and 20 parachutes. It's easy to fly over it with your pterodactyl or someone else and then drop it, open the parachute and shoot it. If you think you are out of range then drop and open the next parachute so that you get no fall damage. And repeat it

Why does ARK treat this thing like it’s a Aztec god? Because it’s actually named after one! The name Quetzalquatlus comes from an Aztec god named Quetzalquatl. And it truly acts like a god in ARK as an areal base to play Darude Sandstorm(original idea from comment suggesting the use of a party Quetzal)!

On a brontosaurus with a platform saddle take ballista turrets and chain bola and aim fire and knock out tame and that’s how u tame a quetzal for beginners

People make this too complicated. Net gun it to the ground and trap with wooden gateways

Get an argue slightly faster than a running quetzal

Grapple on too argue then wishil attacking the argue gets too close whisil passive repeate till quest is koed

Use a tapajara to make it much easier

If you have snow owl freeze it hen build a trap then knock it out

If you are new to utilising quetzals, just know that some non official tricks won't work on official. I learnt that the hard way

The first quetz u tame should be a trapper. Watch odd DAK gaming for more info

When you knock out a Quetzal build a wooden spike all around it as Carnos and other carnivores will attack it.

on the center when you get a low lvl quetz skip the trap and use platform quetz to hit high level with tranq arrows until he flies into cliff. park your quetz quickly behind it and switch to darts not missing a beat since stoping will allow quetz to turn and escape. every time ive done this the tame usually falls in safe high area

For those who have potato phones don't try to tame this guy using the argy method it's a waste of time because of the frame drop and it gonna cost alot of darts/tranq cus you gonna keep losing your shot so just kill this guy and get the implant.

Easy knock out.... fly a wyv next to it quickly jump of shoot with net parachute down. Shoot it in its face until falls asleep. Feel like an ARK God forever.

for single player /solo play get a tapejara, switch seat, shoot, switch seats again, rinse and repeat, make sure to take spikes lots of narcs and food with you. so much easier than messing around with grapple.

Net gun it and build around it so it cant escape and get out. Best way is on gen 2 since u can fly. Or with a griffin or tapejara. But the argie grapple method works too. Good luck!