I'm sure this has already been said but griffin. Griffin all the way, you can shoot off its back other than landing next to some dumb diddly squat terror birds that screwed up my taming efficiency it's a 10/10 would recommend

Ive never tamed a Quetz and i'm going to do so on valguero and it would be nice for some instructions.

If you need to move your stryder around as you can't cryo them, tame a quetzal and build a ramp onto its back then you can walk the stryder up and move it wherever you want.(This is helpful for farming if you don't have a skiff)Just use a quetzal instead.

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I saw a quetzal quite near my base but I only have a Petra . Should I try to tame it? Up for yes -down for no.

If you do not have a Longneck Rifle, then use the Ascendant Bow from the “Hunt: Dilophosaurus” quest and pair it with tranq arrows, provided you haven’t thrown it away or lost it. Lemme give you a rundown:

You see, tranq arrows work in a similar way to the bite of a Titanoboa’s bite; that is, in both examples, torpor is distributed based on the amount of damage that is dealt.

Using my own Quetzal as a test subject, due to a bug in which I can deal damage to him when unclaimed, I tested the precise torpor distribution between a regular bow and my Ascendant Bow. Testing the Ascendant for a general range of damage, in the inventory it claims to be capable of dealing 244 damage on a single hit.

Testing with a regular bow can yield slightly above this however. Sometimes even enough to one-hit a low-level Titanoboa, which has saved my life numerous times in the South Cave. I then test for torpor distribution on a regular bow, with a body shot. The torpor rounded off at about 92 before sinking back down.

Considering a Quetzals typical torpor tolerance supply, not to mention how quickly it drains torpor, your gonna need a ton of arrows and maybe a few spare bows to knock that one out, especially at high levels, and in general just won’t be a fun experience unless you have the patience of a saint and go undisturbed by some carnivore.

So, after the torpor returned to 0, testing the Ascendant bow with tranq arrows, (with a Headshot, just to be generous) yielded roughly 1448 torpor, and with a somewhat blunted amount of damage too, a round of headshots with an Ascendant Bow an easy way to knock out a Quetzal without running the risk of killing it due to the inherently high damage that Ascendant Bows are capable of outputting.

However, in all likelihood, the majority of the hits the Quetzal recieves are going to be bodyshots and wingshots. So, to get a sample of the amount of torpor a Quetzal will generally recieve from an Ascendant bow, we need to direct our hits at the body. This results in approximately 169 torpor.

However, this sample was taken from the side, and most bodyshots are generally going to hit the Quetzals back. So I climb onto my Quetzal to perform a test of the amount of torpor you can generally expect to see from a hit recieved by the Quetzals back, with a test on the center of the back distributing 191 torpor, while a shot to the neck-and-shoulder area interestingly resulted in a total of 456 torpor.

These samples, in general, prove one thing here; Ascendant Bows are usually pure rivals to the Longneck Rifle when it comes to torpor distribution, and with Quetzals you should generally direct your shots at the area where the neck and shoulders meet, and, as typical with most other creatures, the head.

Land a few lucky shots with an Ascendant bow thats been loaded with some Tranq arrows, and a Quetzal soon-to-be yours wont be flying for long!

Just make sure you do it on a Tapejara set to follow, so that you can make the “target” whistle to have your Tapejara follow the Quetzal, and then the “passive” whistle to tell it to stop when you get too close. (If the Quetzal is really far away or is scared and fleeing because you shot it, the Spyglass can really help with the “target” whistle here)

Hopefully this helps those of you who want to tame a Quetzal but have no access to a Longneck Rifle of any sort on your journeys.

There are three taming methods for early game and one for late game

1: (requires a flyer) get on any flyer(petra or argy) jump off and either grapple your flyer while it follows the quetz or use parachute with longneck on low lvls

2: (requires a tape) get on your tape and make it follow the quetz then switch to backseat and shoot it

3: (requires a tribe mate and a flyer) get your tribe mate to pick u up with the flyer and you shoot at the quetz

4: (requires a griff) get on griff and shoot the quetz (u can use weapons on the back of a griff) this is the best single player method

Just dismount your fly tame next to the Quztel then, you will be on it then chain bola it.

To tame one you need

A Griffin

6 dinosure gateway

Tranquzer dart-25

A shotgun

40 raw meat

Sooting bam

Find one shoot it down watch out for dinos collect it's cor and go to oblics and place the dinosure gateway abow the oblics so that after resurrection it will not escape shoot with Tranquzer dart give it sooting bam and raw meat that's all 😄

Use the net gun on one and then build a trap around it. Easy as that

You will need:

3 dodo arrows (to Argo it on you)

500 biotoxin (if taming without balm) and 100 if using a balm.

4 dinosaur gates

A lot of raw meat

About 100 tranq arrows

First of all, set up 3 dinosaur gates in a square shape.

Now, find your quetzal, and hit it with 1 dodo arrow until it chases you. When it starts to chase you, quickly lead your quetzal to the trap and trap it. As soon as your quetzal is trapped, put the last dinosaur gate right behind the quetzal, to stop it from moving quickly. Now, knock it out.

Very easy to tame if you can get yourself a griffin

While I’ve never managed to tame one personally despite my efforts, I think I have a general idea of how these guys are tamed. The Quetzal taming process is divided into sections called “Stages”. I am doing this to make it easier to understand.

Stage 1: “The Prep Period”

As it’s name suggests, during Stage 1 you will be making preparations for the initial taming procedure. These preparations are no easy feat, so be careful. You will want to do the following:

-Gather biotoxin to keep the Quetzal asleep (ideally with a Spino for melee damage and for luring Cnidaria to shore easily)

-Gather meat (and prime meat, if possible) for the actual taming procedure.

-Ensure you have tranq darts and their respective weapon (Longneck Rifle I think? Correct me if I’m wrong). If you do not

Taming:

Get any level of lymantria (saddle not needed)

Whistle the lil limmy in the air and grapple it

Whistle it aggressive on the quetzal (they don’t do damage, and their moth poison slows the quetzal down significantly)

Tranq out the quetzal

Put spikes round it and give it its kibble mutton or prime

Enjoy your new skybase (level weight stamina and health)

Y’all saying that the quetzal is slow but mine had like a 160% speed and was able to out fly a tapejara and someone said that they’re faster on mobile so that kinda explains why, now my quetzal has 203% speed with a scarf giving 20% more speed making it 243% speed😏

You can tame by yourself on griffin.

Once I was looking for a uni, then I did the tidy save. I went to red ob and found a really low lvl. Didn't kill it as I was going to tame it. Got my tranq darts and it vanished. Went looking again, found one on argy mountain. Found another near the green ob and when I was still a noob I found one that was actually LANDED in the green ob area. There is a glitch that can have a quetzle land without it being tamed. And I know it was wild because I was playing single player.

I don’t know why they say it’s hard I killed my (on accident) and then used a reviving platform with a thach structure around it and had it enclosed on top and then Knocked it out and tamed it

Don't tame without a trap or a freind or else get a wyvern first even than it's really hard

Thanks to the flyer nerf that wildcard spat in our faces with , the chain bola is now useful again , if you have a quetzal already you can slap a ballista on its back , lure the high lvl over land and then boom , chain bola it out of the sky and tame yaself a q worth using