Don’t over complicate things, find one, grapple onto argy, whistle attack and the argy will follow, when close whistle passive, shoot quetz, repeat.
Quetzal
The Quetzal is a giant pterosaur and powerful aerial hauler. Its platform saddle can serve as a mobile base for transport and field operations.

How ARK players tame and knock out the Quetzal: what to feed it, what to knock it out with, and how to keep it safe.
Equip your crossbow with a grappling hook. Fly your Argy around and look for a quetzal. After finding, jump off your Argy, and grappling hook it. Whistle attack target on the Quetzalcoatlus and start shooting tranq dart/arrows at the Quetzalcoatlus. Note: Make sure to whistle…
Equip your crossbow with a grappling hook. Fly your Argy around and look for a quetzal. After finding, jump off your Argy, and grappling hook it. Whistle attack target on the Quetzalcoatlus and start shooting tranq dart/arrows at the Quetzalcoatlus. Note: Make sure to whistle passive right before the Argy reaches the Quetzalcoatlus so the Quetzalcoatlus doesn’t die.
If you get a platform saddle on your first one make a pen on the back and get a quetzal to fly into it after that block off the entrance with pillars and then knock it out whilst flying to your base
In creative mode with a flying thylacoleo shot off of it and knock out the quets and feed meat got a lv 41 with this method
If u don’t have enough materials to afford the Argentavis saddle, use a pteranodon, grapple to it, and use the Argentavis method, but with a pteranodon. It’s a little shaky at first. But I had knocked one with this, but my quetzal I was taming was eaten by a Allosaurus.…
If u don’t have enough materials to afford the Argentavis saddle, use a pteranodon, grapple to it, and use the Argentavis method, but with a pteranodon. It’s a little shaky at first. But I had knocked one with this, but my quetzal I was taming was eaten by a Allosaurus. Make sure to bring Wooden spikes.
People say they are a difficult solo take but I just got myself one solo. Was on a griffin and kept shooting It down. What’s great about the griffin is that you can also live left and right. Just followed it around until it fell. Thankfully mine fell on a high mountain and it…
People say they are a difficult solo take but I just got myself one solo. Was on a griffin and kept shooting It down. What’s great about the griffin is that you can also live left and right. Just followed it around until it fell. Thankfully mine fell on a high mountain and it was ok. Super easy, just watch out because if it is going to drop in a dangerous spot....well there goes all ur trans darts
If your on the mobile edition (idk bout ithers im mobile ) just kill it then take its implant and revive it in a revival platform at ur base in enclosed area tame like normal this way you domt have to worry about a giga so to speak eating ur quetz
Taming the quetzal in solo is plain impossible, I wasted over 100 tranq darts flying from ledge to ledge shooting it just so it could de spawn. They definitely have to make the quetzal land once in a while so you can at least trap it
Tame a tapejera and then sit on one of the passenger seats and whistle it up( need to be flying off the ground). Find the queztal once you get next to it whistle passive and continue this process until you knock it out! Good luck taming!!!
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No idea why people want to whistle their flyers to attack the quetzal when you can literally just go as close as you can to the quetzal you wanna tame on a tapejara and then hop in a passenger seat and whistle it to follow you. This way it will literally just hover in the air…
No idea why people want to whistle their flyers to attack the quetzal when you can literally just go as close as you can to the quetzal you wanna tame on a tapejara and then hop in a passenger seat and whistle it to follow you. This way it will literally just hover in the air and you can tranq the quetzal from there. If it goes out of range just jump in the rider seat and move closer. Keep doing this until you knock it out.
You can still use the methods where you’ll set a flyer to attack the quetzal, grapple it (or tapejara passenger) and then tranq it but if the quetzal isn’t a high enough level that method might get risky due to hp and torpor stuff. It still works just fine but my method completely avoids unnecessary damage to the quetzal so it may be safer.
Good luck, survivor!
I just hopped on top of my wyvern and whistled it towards it I was on my way to find a megatherum easy easy wyvern
(MOBILE)If you're just starting out on the Ark, start breeding dodos for bigger size and here's why.
Big dodos drop dodo feathers which can be used to make dodo arrows. You can shoot the Quetzal with the dodo arrow to make it aggro on you and then you can lure it…
(MOBILE)If you're just starting out on the Ark, start breeding dodos for bigger size and here's why.
Big dodos drop dodo feathers which can be used to make dodo arrows. You can shoot the Quetzal with the dodo arrow to make it aggro on you and then you can lure it into a trap.
Quetzals can't go through dino gates so you can design your own trap for the process
The trap I used was made with a behemoth gate, dino gates, foundations and roofs.
Note that it can destroy wood structures.
Grab a friend, a dart gun, and a Tape. Thank me later
Just...Get a low lvl one Chain bola it and tame it. Then after you have it go tame a better lvl one. Ez.
Use dodo arrows to aggro and lure them into a favorable position.
Found an easy way to get a second quetz on mobile. First u need to go into settings and disable the tap to mount button. After u do that, take ur first quetz with all ur supplies and find the second quetzal, dismount and u will remain on its back, since quetzals go about the…
Found an easy way to get a second quetz on mobile. First u need to go into settings and disable the tap to mount button. After u do that, take ur first quetz with all ur supplies and find the second quetzal, dismount and u will remain on its back, since quetzals go about the same speed, whistle attack and keep following the second quetz while firing away at it. After u knock it out, whistle passive and fly down to it. Hope that helped all u mobile players out there!
Get snow owl land on it and freeze it
I was In the snow right where it meets up with the desert on rag and it was flying into the ground it flew straight into my allies mammoth trap pillar and I walked up on it with a wyvern and trapped it and knocked it out
If you are on a solo game use your seconde controller as the shooter(tapejara) and your first controller as the driver and you should be good works great juste dont use the wrong controler lol hope this helps for "solo players" u know what too do so people can see