I was getting really mad trying to tame a 80 quetzal, I am single player so no tribemates to help. I had my pteranodon with 18 wooden spikes and I had my argent following me so I could get some prime after it gets knocked out. I would find the quetzal, land everybody, grapple onto the pteranodon after putting in a tame group, whistle attack THIS target on the quetzal. I see the red arrow on it and my pteranodon doesn’t move an inch. I tried so many times getting so mad, when I realized my weight was being added to pteranodon inventory. WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THAT HAPPENS!! I watched like 5 guide vids before none of them mentioned anything about weight. So I chuck all my gear into the argent except the grapple and longneck, try it again, and I’m so happy when my pteranodon finally goes flying through the air in pursuit of the quetzal. Barely knocked it out with 1 dart left and parachuted down to put up spike walls. Got on argent killed a theriz and prime tamed the quetzal up. I’m happy but that thing literally took me like halfway across the map. Lmao sorry so long but I spent like 40 minutes trying to figure out why my pteranodon wasn’t moving

I found the safest way to tame quetzal..

Need.

1) revival platform

2) a flyer with high melee damage

3)some ancient amber

Now..

1)make cage arround you revival platform by using stone foundation, stone door frame and stone ceilings..

2) find a quetzal and kill it with your flyer but don't hervest it ..

3) take the implant..

4)revive it in the revival platform..it got trapped and can't fly away

5) knock it with what ever you have ..

6) feed it and tame it.

Boom you have a quetzal without taking any risk ..

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Quetzal is very essential to have, the best way to knock it out for begginers, is to mount on an argentavis and grab ur friend, let ur friend do the shooting ( pack urself with lots of arrows or trank darts if ur able to make them) and careful not to down it over the water. You can use tapejara, but to tame one is very hard so argies are ur way to go since their easier to tame.

To knock it out solo, what to do is grappel into your bord, whistle for it to attack the quetzel, then whistle stop while you are near it and shoot it. Repeat the process and it should go down. With people, one person can pick you up with a pteranodon and fly to it. You can shoot at the quetzal while your buddy flys ahead of the quetz.

If you guys want this guys

then heres the step totally make alot of trand arrows like 50 or more than i recommend more trand arrows when you miss to much

step 1:you need a tapejara with saddle of course

step 2 get some biotoxin you can get some bio toxins to chidarians

or get 10x soothing balm

step 3: riding tapejara find some quetzal here where can you found quetzal you can found this guys near to obelisk i always found this guys near to obelisks

step 4: if you already found quetzal go near to quetzal sit at the back seat in tapejara whistle the tapejara (target) which the tapejara will attack the quetzal

step 5: while your tapejara is attacking the quetzal go shoot the quetzal with trand arrows

Step 6: if the quetzal is far away from you don’t shoot it if it is near shoot it!

step 7:make sure not to max torpor the quetzal look at your below before max torporing the quetzal if it the quetzal is in land not gonna got to water max the torpor if it the quetzal is gonna got to water don’t max the torpor or the quetzal will die in drown make sure to look below before 1 shot torpor safety first:)

step 8 now feed it with raw prime meat and put the biotoxins to its inventory while waiting i recommend no carnivore dinos around the quetzal if there is no carnivore dinos around go hunt for titanoboa and other creatures that you can get smoe raw prime meat only near but don’t be far to quetzal you might forgot the way

step 9: now you have to guard quetzal from carnivores until it’s full but make sure to feed it biotoxins when unconscious is low

step 10: now congrats now you have a quetzal name idea birdzal or gigantic bird

These guys are actually semi easy to tame. You will need, harpoon launcher, high dmg longneck, multiple net projectiles (in case you miss), manny tranks bullets, narcotics, and food. First hit it with the net gun then shoot it in the head untill it knocks out, then pump it full of taming food and narcotics, then enjoy your new quetz! (Tip, tame a low lvl one first)

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How to tame

1. Get rare flowers

2. Find a quetz

3.fly down from quetz and build some kind of trap that it will fit it

4. Go back up to quetz and eat rare flowers near it ( this will make it aggro on you as long as the rare flower debuff has not gone away)

5. Guide it to the trap and knock it out

6. Spend the next hour of your life waiting and feeding it narcs

7. GO OUTSIDE YOU FAT NECKBEARD

I have recently found out that the grapple technique doesn’t work very well for mobile 🤷‍♂️ In order to pull it off, you have to have insane “finger speed” to whistle and shoot at the same time 😔 I have found that the easiest way to get one without raging (me) is to kill it and make a trap around an obelisk and revive it via ambers. Takes quite a few resources but it’s better than having to go through the process of trying to get one downed in the air. 😉