If you are on a map like Valguero that has Wyverns on it and happen to steal and hatch an egg before taming your first Quetzal, you can whistle for your Wyvern to follow you and if you dismount it while high enough in the sky (as you would need to be anyway to tranquilize a Quetzal), it will not autonomously land and you will be able to stand on its shoulders (or, if you're feeling particularly bold, you can move to stand on its head). From here, you have a stationary point from which you can shoot at a Quetzal, without needing a platform saddle, a tapejara, or a grapple. Set your Wyvern to passive before pursuing the Quetzal. Since your wyvern should be naturally faster, you can gain on it and even get ahead of or directly above the Quetzal, dismount, fire a shot or two, then mount and repeat.

Note: since the Wyvern models are different, I don't know if this will necessary work on all types. I tamed my first Quetzal on Valguero with an Ice Wyvern. Test the dismount method above a body of water or above a place you don't mind potentially dying with your Wyvern before pursuing a Quetzal or anything else with this strategy.

For people about lvl 40: these things spawn at the oblisks but the red one is normally most found on use grappling hook and hook your pteranodon’s anus then whistle attack and shoot and whistle passive and repeat use rex kibble and not meat since THE DAM MEAT TAKES 50 YEARS if your reading this i dare you to feed it with stimberries (☝︎ ՞ਊ ՞)☝︎If you want to save da nubs thx for reading this long as comment lol -Drax

For some odd reason on mobile, they have an irresistible urge to fly over the redwoods on low torpor. I lost 3 quetzals to terror birds or dire bears.

How to tame a quetzal

1. Get a tapejara (any tapejara you can find)

2. Get 50 tranquilizers ammo you have

3. get 70+narcotics or 50+bio toxin

4.get on the tapejara

5.find a quetzal

6. Go in the passenger seat

7.command the tapejara to attack target

8. Shoot at the quetzal while chasing it until it’s knocked out

9. Harvest meat to feed the quetzal

10.keep feed it narcotics or bio toxin

11.protect it from any dangerous creatures

That’s how I got a quetzal

Use honey.

Quetzal aren't attracted to rare flowers but they will try eating any honey you drop. So put the honey in your hotbar, fly slightly above the quetzal and use the honey. The quetzal will fly after the honey until its out of range.

Rinse and repeat to easily lure quetzal to the ground.

(You can store honey on fishing rods to reset the spoil timer)

Once it's grounded you can either build a trap around it (since quetzals struggle to actually eat the honey on the ground) or lure it into a pre built trap.

I managed to trap one with only 6 honey but id recommend bringing 20 or so to be safe.

It's also worth noting that a wild quetzal will never attack under any circumstances, so you can build the trap out of thatch to save resources. (Just make sure to keep other stuff away, like by using wooden spikes for example)

If your building the trap beforehand I'd recommend 16 thatch foundations in a square, 16 ceilings likewise and alternating columns of walls (like a birdcage) the quetzal needs around a 2 by 2 gap to fit through (I think) so avoid that and your good.

Height wise make the trap 3 or 4 walls tall, I think they technically CAN fit in 2 high but it's unlikely. Leave one side open for it to fly into and once you've got the quetzal close toss some honey in and place those last few walls to trap it.

Honestly I'm shocked how little this method is talked about, trapping the quetzal allows you to control where it gets knocked out so theres no worry of it falling in the water or directly into a rex's gaping maw. Plus it's honestly really easy.

Only downside is that it's hard to drag the quetzal long distances (length wise), so you have to build the trap near where you found it.

TLDR:

Use honey to lure quetzal to ground then trap in thatch box.

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1.when you are in Range of a quetz Jump off your flying mount and activate your parachute

2.whistle your mount to follow and neutral

3.shoot the Quetz with a grappling hook

4.drag yourself to the quetz

5.now you can easily tranq it out

(6. if it gets unconscious over water you can just tow it to the land while flying)

On any of the wyvern maps you can get your friend or whoever to stand on the back of the wyvern while you fly it and they knock it out

Bring an arge so you can shoot it.(I would suggest crossbow and tranc) knock it out clear the area from threats.(preferred food is meat) enjoy your new flying base😁

If you have a tribemate or partner you could tell him to grab you and you can shoot the quetzal while you’re partner is driving( you have to have a pteranodon or higher flying tame )

Net gun the quetz Out of the Air and than make a Gate Trap around hin so he cant escape

1. Use a flyer that let's you shoot while riding.

2. Use Harpoon with net and net it over land.

3. Knock it out with equus while netted.

4. Use desmo potion for 30% tame and feed it prime, gg.

If you have Rhynio, you can shoot Quetzal and knocked out it while riding Rhynio.

Or drop some honey to lure Quetzal to the land and then set trap.

A lot of quetzals spawn at red and if you are looking for a high level, kill the low levels and leave a certain distance. repeat until you find what you are looking for! Use a catcher, it makes it a million times easier!

These just got easier to tame they can be shot down with the net and knocked out 👍

Just an FYI quetz platform saddles are now unlocked at lvl 97 (post patch 257).

Stay away from any water sources!

I jumped off my flyer and used a net projectile to get a Quetz. Took 4 tries.

Tranq arrows/darts + Griffin ----> The Quetz is yours

(MOBILE)

Travel to Red Obb

Press Tidy Save, one should spawn in. If not desired lvl travel Out of its render zone and press tidy save again.

Repeat until you get the lvl you want

You can actually put platforms on them and bring T-Rex if you want the fast travel fun right!?