I didn’t have a Tapejara so this method isn’t ideal unless you just can’t find one on the map:

I put a few grappling hooks, parachutes, and tranq arrows in my Argie until I found a Quetzal. At first I tried to grapple the Quetzal (which succeeded AT FIRST) but the moment it began to flee the hook was consumed and I almost died. Instead I grappled my Argie, shot a tranq, and whistled it to attack the Quetzal; as soon as it fled the Argie zoomed after it and the chase was on! Because I was grappled onto my bird close to the feet I had to time the shots just right so that the Argie’s wings didn’t take the arrow during the flying animation. The only downside to this is that there is a chance of the hook breaking if the Quetzal flies into a cliffside and/or corner (parachutes solved this).

Tapejara is the smarter option, but if you want to get nyoomed through the sky while your Argie is in hot pursuit then this method is for you. It can take a few tries but as long as you have more than one parachute to open/close at the right time so you can secure the potential tame from being eaten by carnivores. Shocking darts are the way to go but for those not that far into the engrams, a few dozen tranq darts will suffice provided you make accurate shots. (Also don’t cryo your platform saddled Quetz like I did and be forced to rebuild :/)

Happy Hunting!!!

Alright, so you have a low level quetzal and now you want to build a trap to tame a higher level quetz. But you realize that in some darn way you can’t fit 6 foundations on the mobile quetz platform like in pc or like the youtube tutorial have said. Here what you’ll need if you want to build a trap with only 2 stone foundations, this is for mobile player who cannot place 6 foundations like me:

- 2 stone foundations

- 24 stone ceilings

- 18 stone doorframes

- 16 stone pillars

- 1 dino gateway (stone or wood works fine)

Now, start by placing down 2 stone foundations, then place the stone ceilings around it. If you do this correctly, you would have a 3x4 rectangle shape with the longer corner being by the quetzal’s wing area. On both the long corner, place 2 ceilings down in the middle. Now you should have a very scuff “+” shape. Place 4 pillar each on the ceilings you just placed and place doorframe on the corner of the trap. Place the rest of the ceilings on top. Now you should have a box with one side open, you’ll try to place down the stone gateway on this size when you have the quetz inside your box

I have run tested this 3 times, as i found 3 quetz in the same area. And this is how i got my lvl 100 female quetz

Good luck survivor, hope this help! ^^

Here's how I tamed a quetz solo

Got the kibble, narcotics and spike walls.

Put the argy on follow and grapple hooked it while it was hovering in the air

Switched to crossbow with tranq arrows.

Left bumper+down arrow to make it go where I was aiming.

Guided it to quetz and chased it around shooting tranq arrows.

Steered argy down to where quetz was knocked out.

Put up spike walls and tamed quetz.

I found another quetz on the way back a d tamed it too.

If you don't have tapejara, you can craft parasutes, jump of a pteranodon or argentavis use parasutes and shooting in quetz(easy to do on mobile version of ark)

Just use a Griffin if your able to tame a Griffin

This is how I tamed my qwesel sorry I’m a bad speller I got my tap and trank darts wiseled attack and hoped in the front darted it down by the swamp peaceful tame easy I was just paranoid

Just use a net gun to get head shot every time

I tamed one of these big birds and realized that I can’t watch other creatures while riding on it. I always need to grab out my spyglass and watch other creatures’ levels.

Rare flowers do not have a rage effect on mobile!

Wild Quetzals do not land, therefore use the tapejara strategy to tame this guy

Noobs tame dinos with cooked prime meat

Pro tames dinos with prime meat

Legends tames dinos with kibble

Decide what will you take

Best way to tame a quetzal is to eat rare flower so he follows you and just lead it to the trap.

to track a quetzal you can put a tracker on a dimorphodon and have it attack, it won't catch up after the quetzal get's skittish

Solo tame a Quetz while riding a griffin. Make sure its stamina is high. Bring lots of tranq darts.

step 1:get rare flowers

step 2:get tanky dino

step 3:lead it away with flyer after eating flower

step 4:get on tank and shoot it in thehead with crossbow and narc arrows

If your really good you can jump off an argue grapple it and make it attack the quetzal but it won’t get it cuz it’s to slow then just tranq it that’s how I did it in asa. Credit to someone else who this exact comment

Official ASA server on 1X dododex was wrong. 150 quetz stood up wild with 1 bite left after using posted narco pots. Deff add like 10 narco pots more. 1.5 HOURS WASTED.

Use a net projectile it works on them.

My quetzal, thalia, is a brilliant utility mount, great for transporting large dinos like megatheriums to the obelusks for boss fights. Grab a friend and a grappling hook for an easy K.O

Solo-taming a Quetzal has never been easier. Bring a flyer, grapple onto the Quetzal, ready your net gun (Yes, they work on a Quetzal!) Wait for the Quetzal to be over flat ground then net it. Follow it down then build a simple birdcage with dino doorways. Super simple and now you have a trapped Quetzal to tranq away!