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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
now, I have seen and read about many ways on taming a quetzal. I am trying to create a compacted tip which shows all of them (or as many as I can remember). since the tips will most likely get very long, I will write down a summary of the tips ingredient requirements, and you can skip to whichever tip you think suits you best:
1) -any k.o weapon which is as good as a crossbow, or better
a parachute
-a structure 3x3x3 in length, with a roof, foundation and walls on only three sides
-any safe area of your choosing
-3 walls
NOTE: this only works with female quetzals
2) -any k.o weapon which is as good as or better than a crossbow
-a tamed pteranodon or tapejara or quetzal
-a revival platform
-construction materials (foundation-walls-roof)
-20 to 40 ancient amber
NOTE: this method is probably the easiest, if you have a lot of patience
3)-any k.o weapon which is as good as or better than a crossbow
-a tapejara or argentavis
-crossbow with grappling hook (only needed for the argentavis method)
-parachute(only needed for the argentavis method)
These are the four methods:
THE FIRST METHOD:
preparation
0. create a 3x3x3 structure (the stronger the better) with foundations, walls and a roof. a 3x3 opening on one of the sides, and a doorframe on the opposite side. make sure your structure is in a safe place
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1. find a female quetzal
2. wait for it to lay an egg. don’t let it out of sight.
3. once it lays the egg, pick it up. if it glitches, and does not fall to the ground, fly above the egg, and dismount your flier. it’s the parachute to slow your fall. when the egg comes into range, take it.
4. the quetzal will now aggro onto you. mount your flier again
5. lead the quetzal to your structure, but before entering, dismount the flier. the quetzal should ignore it
the quetzal will try to get in the structure, but it might not manage. It may take a few attempts to get the angle right.
6. when it is inside the box, place one wall in the 3x3 gap. the quetzal will now be trapped. if your structure is made of wood or weaker, you might want to go around the outside of the cage and place the remaining walls in the 3x3 gap
7. NOTE: if your structure is weaker than stone, skip this step.
with the creature now revived, it will be stuck inside the cage. use a bed to skip 7 hours, then return to the cage.
8. if the quetzals head is showing outside the cage, you do not need to go in, you can tranq it from the outside. just make sure to aim for the beak or head. this will make the torpidity go up quicker. do not use tames to knock it out
9. you should be able to k.o it easily, now you can put any type of meat to tame it. If you skipped step 7, you may need to use narcotics.
THE SECOND METHOD:
1. find quetzal
2. using your flier, kill the quetzal. be careful not to harvest the body, or allow other scavengers to take it
3. open the dead quetzals inventory, and take its creature implant. this cannot be taken from an item cache, only from the body itself.
4. the implant will specify the ancient amber cost needed to resurrect it. you need find the amount of amber specified (open rare supply drops)
5. once you have the amber, place the revival platform in a safe area (it can be as far as you want from the place where you found there quetzal)
6. build a perimeter of foundations around the revival platform. make sure there are no gaps around the perimeter
7. build walls on top of the foundation perimeter. this should be 3 walls high. feel free to put a doorframe. (doors are not necessary)
8. finish by adding a roof to your shape. you should be left with a cage of sorts, covering the revival platform
9. open the inventory, and put the creature implant inside, next press (or click) the button revive.
10. with the creature now revived, it will be stuck inside the cage. use a bed to skip 7 hours, then return to the cage.
11. if the quetzals head is showing outside the cage, you do not need to go in, you can tranq it from the outside. just make sure to aim for the beak or head. this will make the torpidity go up quicker. If you are using a tame to knock it out, like the pulmonoscorpius, you may want to do that from inside the cage.
12. you should be able to k.o it easily, now you can put any type of meat to tame it. since it is food bar is depleted, it will eat all the meat without the cool-down time, which means you don’t need narcotics.
THE THIRD METHOD:
1. find quetzal
2. NOTE: skip to step 5 if you are using the tapejara
jump of your flier, then use your parachute to slow your fall
3. grapple onto your flyer
4. keep the parachute, you will need it for later
5. if you are using a tapejara, switch to use the second seat. whistle attack target (the target being the quetzal)
6. use your k.o weapon as much as you can until your flier gets to close to the quetzal, then whistle passive. repeat step 5 until the quetzal is unconscious. feed it any meat to tame
More Quetzal Taming & KO Tips
The fun way is to jump off and grapple to your argie and whistle it to attack and since argies are slow it won’t catch up in time so tranq till it goes out also bring parachutes and consider liking so more people will know
Idk why everyone makes this so complicated with all the grappling stuff all you have to do is,
1. Get or use a tapejara that’s a low level with a couple levels into movement speed
2. Get a rifle or crossbow with either darts or tranqs
3. Find a quetzal and then go to the back of your tapejara and set to attack the quetzal
(Since quetzals have high health and ur using a low level tapejara you can actually leave the tapejara to attack the quetzal, it’ll be fine)
4. Knock It out, not over water, and put whatever you want into it and ban you have a quetzal
Btw, you don’t need to worry about the tapejara’s stamina, it doesn’t decrease while you sit in the back seat
Guys this is the ersieht was to tame a quetzal. All you need is a tapejara.
1) Whisle your Tapejara to follow you
2) Ride you Tapejara and surch for a quetzal
3) When you found a quetzal, go an the back of the Tapejara (dont forget that you have to make the follow whisle on Tapejara, otherwise the will Flyer to the ground)
4) Make the attack whisle while you are on the Tapejata's back, so your tapejara will follow the quetzal.
5) Just shoot the quetzal with tranq darts/arrow and make the passive whisle on the Tapejara when he is too close to the Quetzal.
6) Repeat that till the quetzal gets knocked out and enjoy your quetzal taming.
TIPP: They spawn near the Obelisk and fly trought the whole map after spawning. GOOD LUCK!
If you manage to knock a quetzal out, try starve taming. If you never tried starve taming it’s just leaving a Dino’s hunger go to half way or lower and then you start feeding. I’ve done this many times and it’s very useful taming trick.
Use a tapejara, sit on the passager seat and set it on my target. Then make it fly to the quetz. Shoot the quetz with any sort of tranq ammo. Do this reapetly and you Have knocked quetz👌
Important note !!
Quetz will not follow you if you eat a rare flower!
MAKE SURE TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE AREA THAT YOUR QUETZ IS FLYING DIRECTLY ABOVE BEFORE YOU KNOCK IT OUT! I had two quetzals drop into rivers near red ob and drown, and had another quetzal drop into the middle of the swamp, where it got killed by 2 sarcos and a kapro. Also, defend your quetz's body when it gets knocked out, since even dilos can attack this thing, meaning that it isn't safe from any aggressive carnivore (and also brontos cuz i once saw a rex fighting 2 brontos in my area and it caused my quetzal to be caught in the crossfire and lose 50 taming effectiveness)
Last point to bring up: if they spawn in any areas where rhynios can also spawn, and a rhynio goes after the quetzal, you can cross off taming that quetzal cause unless you can fly fast enough to make it prioritize you over the quetzal wild rhynios are faster than wild quetzals, and the quetzal will eventually die to resin attacks.
after you have it down and knocked out. get close to it. because anything will attack it. it's more likely going to try and attack it, and hit it. and poison spit at it.
If you have any dodo arrows, make a trap (tutorials on YouTube) the shoot the quetzal with the dodo arrows. The quetzal will get triggered at you and lead it to the trap.
To solo tame, grapple to an argentavis, and be ready to set your argentavis to passive and attack my target on command. Just maintain a process of having your argentavis chase the quetzal, when you get close enough set it passive, then fire a tranq dart/arrow. This is a long process, but it is by far the easiest way to solo tame, unless you already have a quetzal.