A Guide On Taming A Quetzal, Solo And On Console, Without The Net Gun:

1. Tame a high level Argentavis. Mine had 5,000 stamina and 120% movement speed. Tamed a level 135 at the volcano.

2. Make grappling hooks, parachutes and over 200 tranquilliser darts (I only ended up using 14)

3. Practice the method. Whistle your Argy to follow you, once it’s in the air, grapple onto it’s stomach. From there, look up and hit LB + Up on the D Pad. This is the ‘go here’ whistle command, which does NOT appear in the whistle wheel.

(This can cause problems - make sure you have assigned your Argy to a separate whistle group (in the inventory menu) from your other dinos and set that group as your active group. Otherwise, all your nearby dinos will try to reach the ‘go here’ location too)

4. Use the triggers to move up and down. I recommend moving down a little on the grapple - it seems easier.

5. Press crouch to release yourself from the grappling hook. This will cause you to fall in you’re in the air, so make sure you have a parachute - I think it might need to be on your hotbar.

6. Load up your Argy with everything, and then find your Quetzal. Land nearby. Repeat Step 3. Make sure your ‘go here’ is ABOVE the Quetzal - it’s easier to shoot it this way.

6.5. You can find Quetzals around but not limited to, the red obelisk, volcano, and cold north areas.

7. On xbox, the ‘go here’ command will make you change and/or put away your weapon. Best thing is to make sure your rifle is loaded after shooting before using the command again to catch up to the Quetzal.

8. If you reach the ground and can’t find your Quetzal, track it from the taming menu in the inventory. It should have a big icon over it’s head once you have tracked it.

BONUS INFO:

- Shooting the wings does not count as part of the hitbox. The best place to hit is the head, but the body is far easier.

- The Quetzal turns very often and quick during combat.

- It may be worth bringing a raft or making a small base with backup tools and armour and a bed nearby - especially if you’re in a more dangerous area. If you choose to do this, do it during Step 6.

- According to a reddit thread, trying to use a scorpion to knockout a Quetzal has a 70% death rate. This is because scorpions deal both melee and torpor damage. Both of them increase with leveling.

Guys the Leftover tranq darts from the rex as well as a few tranq arrows to take it down. Especially because I only had 3 grapple and 6 parachutes. It had insane torpor.

I got a ascendant qutez saddle from the ark mobile pursuit hunt argentavis. My argy killed all of them easy, the saddle has 86 armor which is decent I guess. So I am going to tame a quetz. I have a lot of amno leftover from a rex I tamed so I am going to look for a 110 I saw a while ago.

To Tame A Quetzal:

- Find Your Quetzal

- Hop on the passenger seat of your Tapejara

- Direct your Tapejara by whistling it when in the air

- Tranq the Quetz from the Tapejara until it is knocked out (Don’t knock out over water)

- Feed it Exceptional Kibble or Meat

Now You Have A Quetzal!

You Can Also Tame More Quetzals Much Easier

Is a quetz better than a giga? There is a 110 kinda close to my base.

Use tapejara not argy I used argy and I died so I made a vow never to play ark again

O melhor jeito de derrubar um Quetzal sozinho é usando uma Tapejara. Vc manda a tapejara atacar o Quetzal enquanto vc fica no lugar do passageiro dando tiro no Quetzal.

For taking a quest first time, first game a low lvl so you can later catch a high 100+ quetz. First get a high level argentavis and get flak armor with water and food. Get 10 grapples and 10 parachutes, preload the crossbow with the grapple and add it to your inventory, also put the parachutes in your bar. If it’s a level 15 or so get 30-40 tranq darts or get 20 shocking tranq darts. Find the quetz and get near it in the air have your crossbow in your hand before you get on the argen, when you are near the quetz jump off your argen and equip the para, then immediately grapple argen. When you’ve done that, shoot a dart at the quetz then send your argen after it using the whistle, since quetz fly towards 50,50 you are near water, count how many times you hit it to make sure it doesn’t knock out over water, if it knocks out near 50,50 make sure you immediately put spike walls all the way around it. Once you’ve done that kill all creatures around, then give it prime and 200 narcotics. Cryo

The best way to tame a quetzal is that you shot from a griffon of the quetzal

Simply get a snow owl, find a quetz, once in a safe place, freeze it out of the sky,the quetz will walk for a few seconds.freeze again and place 4 dinosaur gates.

If you want to tame one set a tamed Tapejara to follow you but you have to be off your tame first then find change seats a quetzal set it to attack the quetzal and shoot some tranqs and you can set your Tapejara to follow you when you are of it and when you fly it it will stay in the air so it is a easy way to kill alpha’s.

These things spawn in abundance in Crystal Isles. If you're looking for a good one, I suggest you go there.

Best solo method that I've found, by far, is to use a Archaeopteryx with a Tapejara. Once you find a Quetz, jump off and switch to front passenger. Whistle attack while shooting tranqs, then whistle passive once you get too close. I bring Argies and set target and follow distance both to high, make them follow the Tapejara. When you eventually knock the Quetz, whistle the Argies to follow you to defend it wherever it lands. Make sure all the Argies are set to "Only attack conscious".

Any taming food or kibble I bring, I place in the Tapejara and have them set to passive when I land. Once you knock a Quetz out of the sky, you can use crouch to go straight down with the Tapejara so you don't lose where the Quetz lands.

If you are on crystal isles and you want a quetz the easiest way to knock it out is with a griffin because you can use weapons on it and you still have full control

If you're on a cluster bring a snow owl and freeze it mid air and just surround the quetz with gates

Easy af if you have a tribe mate and tapejara just fly up to the quetz and let your probe just tranq is out make sure it’s not over water obviously

Get urself a griffin....tranq the quetz from the back of the griffin....raw mutton works best if you don't have kibble...tada...quetz

If you with tribe mates just get either argy or pteranodon pick up your tribe mate and the tribemate who has been picked up just start tranqin out with any tranq ammo worked for me and now I have 2 high lv quetzals 🙂

Screw flyers nerf, I'm just gonna boost the hell out of a proctodon

Knock out is too easy now that we have the net gun..

All you gotta do it bet it and shoot it’s eye wile it’s down it’ll do like 5-6x the amount of torpor then when it gets out of net just chase it for a bit and keep shooting till it knocks if your using a low tier weapon for tranqing you might need to net it again it used to be you had to chase em and try to bulls eye it’s eye to get the extra torpor but now the net gun makes it to easy you could also just trap it with some Dino gates and if you’ve got a tribe you could all shoot it wile it’s netted and knock it out real quick but careful not to shoot it once it’s out