I'd say one of the easyist way to tame this thing is to use a tapajara and rare flowers because then the quetz won't run away

If you kill a low lvl (low hp) and take the implant you can revive it in your base with a revival platform. Build a base around the platform so that he cant fly away when you revive it. I did it with a lvl 2 and I was done in 5 minutes. It took me 30 amber to revive it and 2 prime meat with a x15 balm. EASY!!

If you don't have another Quetzal, the easiest way to tame it is to use Argentavis - Grappling hook strategy. Set up keys for attack this target and move to in settings. Then jump from Argentavis and hook onto him (do this at low altitude in case you fall). Then you just whistle move to Quetzal and shoot with Tranquilizer Darts from Longneck Rifle. When it starts fleeing whistle attack on Quetzal so that you catch up with him. Make sure that you whistle move to before Argentavis actually attacks Quetzal. Super spyglass is of great help too because you can see torpidity and make sure you don't knock it out above water

I found a level 300 at the red obelisk. Very easy tame, all i had to use was 30 spike walls, a Tapejara, and darts.

Just use rare flowers and leaD into a stone gate traps for shoot tranqs in its Mohawked head

Don't wait until you're level 85 and is able to tame a griffin. Even though it is the easiest method to tame a quetz for the first time, its not worth the wait since Tapejaras exist. Make sure to fly high enough so that your tapejara don't automaticlly fly to the ground and then swap to the passanger seat. Whistle target while aiming at the quetz and your Tapejara will fly towards the quetz. If you're near enough, whistle passive and shoot at the quetz. Repeat this and you will have a knocked quetz. And don't worry, Tapejaras stamina won't slowly dissapear when you're on the passanger seat. And don't forget to bring a parachute just in case

If you did find a quetzal and have a server of 2, you could use a Griffin to get it out of the sky but you can also use a argi and grapple to it to knock it out

More unconventional way of taming would be to pop a rare flower whilst it’s near and then trapping it with behemoth gateways

Hi,did your Dobodex is always wrong?I think I can Settle it.

1:go to setting options(you can drag your screen Left to right)

2:if you see taming speed you need to press that thing and set it to 1

Hope this usefulᐛ

BTW its me a guy tell you to set a taming speed cuz your Dobodex is 1.75 taming speed.

You can use the Tapejara multi seat to go near it shoot it with the dodo arrow and then tranq darts and repeat

Man, never knew taming these guys were so easy! I had a griffin, so obviously it was easy. Just chased after it while shooting it with tranqs, it was only lvl 85. But, woah, that was my first quetzal.

Thees thing are the hardest thing to tame so I was taming a level 1 i I had 200 darts then I shot 50 then it went in the red woods got killed 5 times! Lost 4 tapejaras when I finally knocked it out with 12 darts left it died by a dumb carno then I cried I wasted 3 hours of my life I could have tamed a titansaur in that time so uses tames for are not worth.

Dose anyone know how many tranquilliser darts it takes to ko a lvl 2 quetzal with an asendent longneck rifle?

i’ve searched the whole universe + i haven’t found quetz = bruh

up if i should look more

- HydraRex12

A griffin’s the easiest way to tame it solo

Tamed one solo today by chasing it with a decent lvl griffin, i think thats the best way solo tbh

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.

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.