Fast Quetzal Taming Guide :: Ark : Survival Evolved Tips and Tricks

In this taming guide, I talk about how to tame a Quetzal. They can be one of the more difficult solo tames in ark as there are very limited and specific ways to tame a quetzal alone. If you have people to help you, you can just carry a second person with a Pteranodon and have them knock it out. If you're alone, you don't have that luxury. I outline some of the easiest methods and a couple of the more difficult or unusual methods. In my opinion, you just need to tame a griffin and transfer it into the map you want to tame a Quetzal on. Not only is the Griffin the easiest to use, it gets even better because of the passenger seat on the Griffin's back. The next easiest uses either a Pteranodon and a grappling hook or the front passenger seat of a Tapejara saddle and whistle move and whistle attack commands to follow a Quetzal. This method isn't quite as easy as using a Griffin, but you don't need to transfer in any special creatures. Past that, once you have a quetzal tamed, and have a platform saddle for it, you can tame any quetzal you want easily. Just build a 3x3x3 trap with double doorframes in the center of each wall the top missing, fly from under the Quetzal you want to tame, and place the ceilings in place to trap it. As long as your Quetzal doesn't move, or you don't leave you Quetzal, it makes the tame super easy.

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00:00 Intro
00:11 Food
01:10 Complications
02:59 Griffin
03:46 Pteranodon and Grappling Hook
05:05 Tapejara Passenger Seat
06:53 Argentavis and Scorpion
07:33 Snow Owl
08:19 Wyvern
09:20 Platform Saddle
10:53 Saddle Crafting
11:14 Controls
11:42 Quetzal Egg
11:57 Skeletal Quetzal
12:50 Tek Quetzal
13:50 Outro

[skateocaster]

I literally watched someone else’s taming video and was disappointed when I didn’t hear that famous intro! Thanks again!

[glennolson]

Most frustrating thing about solo-taming a quetzal without a trap: that slight desync between client and server where it looks like you hit it on the client side, but the server registers it as a miss...

[littlefuze_buze]

Are you tired of... :YES YES I'M TIRED

[blazer]

Gotta love "Ket-zal" + "Tow-por" and the best, "Using weapons while driving the griffin"

[mikeH]

I couldn't find any quetzal on my map but I finally found one, followed it around for an hour because it kept going in dangerous areas and when I was finally ready to knock it out I saw a higher level and better colored one, so I shot at that and when it finally went down it almost got killed by Carnos, thylas, bugs, you name it. I barely got it and as soon as it tamed I cryopodded it and flew home

[johnndavedvicete]

You can also drop a trail of honey while mounted on a flyer, the quetzal will then follow the honey to the ground and then u can trap it with four dino gate in a square form.. then pelt it with tranq dart.. much easier for me. Just bring lots of honey and a dino on crypod to protect you just incase. Hope this helps

[Trapcard-ckpq]

There is also another method. If you go in front of the quetzal and drop honey it will fly after the honey to the ground, where you can use Dino gates to trap it

[fierceeagle]

I LITERALLY TAMED A QUETZAL YESTERDAY I NEEDED THIS VIDEO

[thestorm]

I've been waiting for this for so long... Finally, inner peace.

[fattyuka]

BRO THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED, I WAS JUST ABOUT TO TAME ONE

[redboot]

The dislikes are from the angry quetzals that got killed by scorpions

[joshuanaumowicz]

Damn I needed this Still super happy to see that it’s finally here

[Opinnom]

For the snow owl method, you could use a chain bola or bear trap to secure the quetzal. You could trap it afterwards which makes it really easy to keep in in the gates.

[laggichi]

Seriously I was searching for your video on quetzal taming guide for a week now
, and u uploaded right after I tamed it
WHY I MEAN Y

[edelnunez]

For some reason I find these videos entertaining

[botchedoperations]

Just tame it on rag. Its almost like its programmed to always go to the snow and get stuck after a while.
Step 1: spot the one you like to tame
Step 2: get on your argy, have grapples, parachutes, tranq darts and a good simple rifle(got a 188% BP after gathering loot drops from the ice queen)
Step 3: get close to it, unmount, use parachute, and grapple on the argy, whistle the argy to attack and start shooting the quetzal, then whistle passive when it gets too close to the quetzal.
Step 4: keep shooting it, and eventually it starts getting stuck in the mountains. And you can even shoot it from the ground.
(Depending on your torpor you might lose decent health, I usually carry extra sleeping bags)

[redblade]

Oh right pro tip. Make a big wall of spike walls at the 50, 50 so that when the quetzal falls to that or near that place (bring extra spike walls just in case, around 10 since these guys are huge) it will be a bit secured. Use an argy or a high lvl tapejara for this (tapejara method requires patience. Too much patience) and chase and tranq the quetzal. Use a high quality longneck rifle (apprentice or ascendant, depends on you, and bring at least two, one main and the other for backup) if shocking tranq darts are still unavailable to you. Use bio toxin instead of narcs for this, as a quetzal’s torpor drains fast, rivals the Therizinosaurus or the compy in drainage.

[ferdinandpurczeld]

The Pteranodon method worked for me, though I had to do intensive research and experimentation to figure out how grouping, whistling, and grappling work.

[HewieAlbino]

My first Quetzal was a Level 15 one. It was on a singleplayer world on Ragnarok so I used the Griffin method. Quetzal ended up landing in the area between the canyon and murder snow mountains so there were allos, carnos and sabers patrolling about. Put down a parameter of spiked walls, fed it some raw mutton and it tamed up quickly since it was a low level. Pumped some weight and stamina on to it, made a platform saddle with a trap and went on to tame a 135 one.

My advise is to just go for a low level one first, especially if you're using the grapple or tapejara, so you don't have to struggle and fight the controls for too long. Once you have one Quetzal, taming subsequent ones get infinitely easier with the trap method, since you don't have to worry about chasing it down or getting eaten by predators.

[Otis]

Thanks for the video. This looks like it was a lot of work. I appreciate it. I think I'm just going to go the 2-player route.