Once tamed a Quetzal’s stats go up a RIDICULOUS amount. It’s weight goes up by around 200 for a wild lvl 80, which means they are PERFECT for collecting MASSIVE amounts of heavy mats like Metal, Obsidian and Wood. Their health from a wild lvl80 also goes up by around 2000, which is pretty good, and when lvled their health goes up by 500, more or less, each time, which can make them AMAZING 🤩 tankers. Their melee tamed stat can also go up by 100%, And don’t get me started on the overpowered knockback. I just wish these guys fitted in caves.

Get a grappling hook and a flyer. Fly close enough to the quetzal, jump-off and shoot it with the hook then shoot it with any tranquilizing ammo you have (wait 5 seconds between each shot)

Also make sure your flyer is following you so when the quetzal gets knocked out you can hook onto him.

Many pepole are saying get a bird and grapple it and make it chase the argi while taming. If your in single player then you can get a tapojira get its saddle go to the back seet of the saddle and knock it out that way instead

Best Tame for weightlifting in the sky’s

Position them so that their wings go through each other and they wont move away from one another during breeding. Learned this a few months ago.

There are so many possibilities for what to do with the Quetz platform saddle. For example You could make a flying home which, if set up correctly, can fit a bed, a forge, a smithy, crop plots on the roof and a pen for one medium sized Dino.

You could make a bomber Quetz that would drop dodos with C4, or a gunship with Dilos and Velonasaurs, or even one giant pen to carry and airdrop Rexes.

Named mine giant bird cuz, Why Not?

It's big and it sounds like a crow or

Fly with griffon and easy job and enjoy

This thing took 4 hours the hatch and 5 days to have full imprint

Whenever you need biotoxin to keep a creature with a particularly speedy torpor drain unconscious, these guys can make farming cnidaria much easier, as due to their long neck, they can reach their beak into the water without having to get too close to it, or running the risk of getting attacked and electrocuted/stunned by a successful attack, all while remaining in the air.

Of course Spinos are another way to do this, but taming a Spino is it’s own whole ‘nother ball game, which can even be more dangerous than taming a Quetzal under the right circumstances.

And thats not even mentioning you need to hoard a lot of fish meat which can be dangerous (megalodon are the best and most common fish meat source but also the toughest in terms of the common ones), and a whole bunch of other stuff, meanwhile Quetzals are a much more simple taming process once you have the right mount, equipment (ascendant bow rivals longneck with tranq darts as torpor scales with damage) and are good at it.

So if you need to hord biotoxin for some reason, tame a Quetzal if it is within your capability to do so (which it should be if you are a particularly high level player)

Upgrade health maybe 2 or 3 times, then soam levels in weight and stam because you can just go into air, stop sprinting, stop moving and sit up there for days on pvp servers and if ur high enough your safe

Or mosa and go deep underwater

Don’t put rocket turrets on them rip Cannoli IV :(

Why does ARK treat this thing like it’s a Aztec god? Because it’s actually named after one! The name Quetzalquatlus comes from an Aztec god named Quetzalquatl. And it truly acts like a god in ARK as an areal base to play Darude Sandstorm(original idea from comment suggesting the use of a party Quetzal)!

They should add Hatze. (Hatzegopteryx)

There big so they look slow but in all honesty they are faster than a average petradon

Using this with doed/ank is a really good way of collecting resources, pump stam/weight

What they CAN pick up:

Mammoth?

What they CANT pick up:

Baby Giga?

These things are tanks I use them for everything.

Make a metal box and pick up creatures and just drop them in for easy tames and they can't fight back

Give a platform saddle 1 or more ankys and you have a metal making machine