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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a quetzal? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a quetzal.
Hey you!, yes you, I heard you’re looking to tame A Mighty Quetzalcoatlus?,
Welll, look no further!
To tame one of these,is quite simple but here’s the disclaimers
The simplest way in my opinion is using a wyvern and following it around and shooting off said wyvern, since on wyverns when you dismount unlike other flyers, for example Argies and Pterandons, you don’t directly fall off instead you’re set in a standing position
As for the second disclaimer I mentioned using this method is the only way I’ve tamed one so , if you don’t have a wyvern I can’t help you with much. But that’s why there’s a multitude of tips here to aid you instead of mine I’m just saying all this because it’s an easy way to tame them without much resources being wasted.
Rare flowers, egg aggros, etc. don’t work anymore, they never aggro while they are wild, they only flee and they are pretty damn quick, but once you tame them, they are literal flying snails
If you have a snow owl you can freeze it so it falls and then put gates around it
In order to solo tame a quetz, you could use an argentavis and a pulmiscorpius. Just pick up the pulmiscorpius, and do whistle attack target while looking at the quetz, your pulmiscorpius should start attacking the quetz, raising it's torpidity until it is knocked out.
You can just change seats on ur tapejara and whistle it to attack quetzal and shoot it with tranq darts. Thats the easiest way to tame one.
They have the 50 50 glitch were they fly to 50 50 on the map so the always fly there so that’s we’re you should make a trap or kill it and revive it at your base. Up so people can see
Go parasailing to tame this.
1. Find target and jump of Argy.
2. Launch parachute.
3. Grapple hook to Argy.
4. Whistle "fly to” commands and start parasailing.
5. Tranq the target in the air.
Knocked out lvl 60 with almost one hour!!!!!!
And the raptors came........☠️☠️☠️
Always keep a equus and lasso while taming a quetzal.
If your unlucky enough, the quetz will knock out over water which normally would ruin your day but if you lasso a knocked quetzal you can drag it out of the water to safety.
These boys can be netted making taming easier.
I always find my quetzals at the red obelisk
Ride Desmodus or Giffin.
Shoot with tranq.
Swallow a Saguine Elixir.
Shove Exceptional kibb down it's massive throut.
Now you got an air bus.
And if you hate life breed them...
How to tame a quetzal, solo, on mobile, with a pteranodon:
1. Ride your fastest mount, and kill a quetzal. Leave the body, and let it fall to the ground
2. Collect the creature implant from the dead body
3. Create a revival platform
4. Surround revival platform with metal foundations, and on those metal foundations, put a three-wall high metal fence (using the metal door frames). Cover the whole thing with metal roofing.
5. Revive the wild quetzal. It can’t escape, so just knock it out with darts or poisons arrows etc
You now have a quetzal
For mobile
1Find quetzel
2 kill quetzel
3 get artifact implant
4 build trap on Revive platform
5 have 20 Ancient amber or more depending on lvl
6 knock it out while it's still inside your trap
7 Give Rex kibble and done
THIS IS THE EASIEST WAY BUT THE EXPENSIVE WAY TO
If you have a friend playing with you. Get an Argentavis, make your friend lift you using Argentavis and shoot the Quetz from there.
If youre solo, you can use Tapejara, jump on the passenger seat and just command the Tapejara to chase the Quetz, this can be a bit challenging because the whistle doesnt work well all the time.
Before you knock out the Quetz, make sure it wont fall into the ocean or river, so it wont drown. Feed it with the neccesary taming food, and there you have it.
I think it is good to tame the lowest lvl you can find then give it a platform saddle and then tame you high lvl
Well this is how I do it you can shoot on tapejaras so get one make a saddle crossbow with tranqs and shoot it up to 19-70 times
Honey attracts all nearby creatures when dropped by selecting it in the hotbar, and since you can drop them while riding a creature you can use this to lure quetzals to the ground and trap them with dino gates.
Beware if you lead one far from its spawn point and knock it out, don’t fly too far away. I knocked out a level 140 on one of the glaciers after luring it down from the snow mountain with honey. After trapping, knocking it out, and taming it to 75%, I decided to make a quick run back to base. It was safe way out on the floating ice as nothing spawns out there but as soon as it left render, it despawned. I am sad, have been waiting forever to find a high level one. Now back to waiting because of my mistake.
Why do these guys always knock out and fall near carnos, raptors and sabers