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.

There are three taming methods for early game and one for late game

1: (requires a flyer) get on any flyer(petra or argy) jump off and either grapple your flyer while it follows the quetz or use parachute with longneck on low lvls

2: (requires a tape) get on your tape and make it follow the quetz then switch to backseat and shoot it

3: (requires a tribe mate and a flyer) get your tribe mate to pick u up with the flyer and you shoot at the quetz

4: (requires a griff) get on griff and shoot the quetz (u can use weapons on the back of a griff) this is the best single player method

Just dismount your fly tame next to the Quztel then, you will be on it then chain bola it.

To tame one you need

A Griffin

6 dinosure gateway

Tranquzer dart-25

A shotgun

40 raw meat

Sooting bam

Find one shoot it down watch out for dinos collect it's cor and go to oblics and place the dinosure gateway abow the oblics so that after resurrection it will not escape shoot with Tranquzer dart give it sooting bam and raw meat that's all 😄

If you have buddies, a good Tapejara can keep up with the Quetzal and angle some really good shots for your friends with it's maneuverability. If not, you can ride a griffin while using a crossbow, hope this helps!

Platform saddle on a plesiosaur, add ballista turret and put chain bolas into it. A whole bunch of them.

Try and hit over land, then tranq him senseless with possible re-bola if he wakens.

Don't tame without a trap or a freind or else get a wyvern first even than it's really hard

Thanks to the flyer nerf that wildcard spat in our faces with , the chain bola is now useful again , if you have a quetzal already you can slap a ballista on its back , lure the high lvl over land and then boom , chain bola it out of the sky and tame yaself a q worth using

Owning my first Queztal makes life substantially easier in Ark. I use my Queztal for multipurposes like:

1. Transportation for general use.

2. Using as a dropship while extracting a recently tamed dino from a hostile area/ hot zone.

3. Using it as a platform while farming and gathering resources.

4. Using it as a Queztal taming cage to obtain another one.

5. Giving friends rides, or extracts with no flying dinos.

6. Buidling an almost universal structure on its platform helps you if you're short on resources, or at times, lazy like me when I do not feel like producing structures.

7. Best stamina dino while traversing long distances, or taking your kids on a family road- trip on Ark.

8. Almost forgot to mentioned, it is good for construction, especially for high elevated structures. You can also work while flying it,or work on its back.

Overall, the best dino in terms of usefulness, and fun I've ever had. Queztal is love, Queztal is life.

Knock a 150 out w a ascendant slingshot. There some be prestige levels for that.

101 how to tame a quetzal without a quetzal step 1. Get a friend that you ride or pick up with a rape or Argo get beat the quetz then shoot when it's down build a wall around it so no Carlos e.g. can kill it also get a red for meat and take slot of narcotics.

Off to get metal now are where there yet no ok! Are we there yet no!!! Oh wait got land Stam ok are we there yet no flyer nerf is bad!

Although it does spawn in by the red obi..a few also spawn by the blue obilisk as well. One did spawn by the south west part of the snowy or the blue obilisk area

Useless, flyer nerf ruined them! Take a bronto instead

I didn't know this when I first started taming or playing the game but if you knock out the quetzal (or any wild flying type in general) and they fall from a great night they won't take any damage. But it is a good idea to plant spikes in a half circle (if low on resources) you can guard the enter and exit spot to access it's inventory and guard it's sides from other hostile wilds without being right there. Happy taming, yes use kibble!

Best way to take these is to use a club or a frog, bola them use ur frog or club

To solo tame, get a fast argentavis and a scorpion. Then put the scorpion on Aggressive and pick it up with the argy. Find a low level quetz and let the scorpion stab it. After you knock out and tame that quetz make it into a quetzal catcher to get a higher level one.

Just her a friend on a taperjara and fire everithing in. it

If you are thinking of doing the traditional 2 player argy pickup method then this will help you. Instead of a argy use a high level ptera with at least 2k stamina and make sure it's weight is below half while holding the other person. Pteras are way faster and much better. Me and my friend knocked a lvl 25 quetz out within about 60 seconds using this method and tranq darts.