Ark Basics Quetzal - SOLO TAME THE KING OF THE SKIES

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[@EssentialLiberty]

Back in my day we used to jump on their back with clubs... When men were still men

[@MrChancyG]

My first solo was with an argy and a scorpion 🦂 lol took so damn long g

[@EssentialLiberty]

@@MrChancyG back when fliers could get around

[@EssentialLiberty]

@Legendary super Saiyan Broly love the name

[@unpopularsalad8153]

I'm American I use a gun for everything clubs are for cave men

[@holycrusader3028]

Mr. Cactus “if there’s a law you can duck it. if you catch it you can fuck it” - America’s gloryhole

[@9polo194]

Using tapejara is cool, but it feels so intense when you go in Argentavis, grappling hook, and parachute

[@DucklingGaming]

_Munzie_ and how u tell me how u tamed it a grappling hook?

[@Llamaover9000]

@@DucklingGaming I know this is ten months old but are you really that stupid? Have you ever played ark? You can quickly jump off the argi and hook and parachute so you stay in mid air and can shoot

[@Delitor]

@@Llamaover9000 you could be a little nicer

[@lick28]

@@Delitor this is the internet, good mannerism is a rarity

[@sybrenvanderley6685]

@@lick28 I see you everywhere are you the new uwu

[@jelltonium8062]

The king of the skies that runs away from you when you peck them

[@francisbacon5897]

It should pick you of your mount and start eating you like a megalosaurus or Kaprosuchus

[@anthonyhi6517]

@@francisbacon5897 that'll make it harder to tame

[@raydoncarroll7867]

Anthony Hi yay but it won’t run away from you and you could trap it if it’s aggressive

[@anthonyhi6517]

@@raydoncarroll7867 ok

[@agoogleuser8945]

@@francisbacon5897 Hahaha, I read Megaloceros at first and I was so confused. I've been spending way too much time in the Snow Biome.

[@Leekle2ManE]

A way to reset a flying Quetzal's Stamina while taming is to have an Argent or Pter following you. Hop on the secondary flyer for a few seconds and the Quetzal will reset its stamina.

[@Tsukasa150]

I'm still using from back then the original method with a scorpion on aggessive and an argentavis. Kinda outdated it seems now but damn that tapejara method looked pretty easy.

[@austinhornbeck5060]

It took me a year and two playthroughs, but I solo'd tamed a Quetzel the other day thanks to this video. :3

[@sirnoble3197]

This is the method for when you have no friends :(

[@ryodenshipwright]

Join us on Phlinger's patreon server if you want to make friends. We would love to have you.

[@katiecarpenter1343]

My method then 😂

[@mchamb111]

Yes

[@ToastyCarnotaur]

every time i watch one of these he always says "wrong button" at least once proven he has a catch phrase

[@npc2153]

It's just means the game has 1,000 different buttons and even pros misclick all the time. I know i do.

[@Jessepigman69]

Makes me cringe every time not gonna lie

[@npc2153]

@@Jessepigman69 I didn't understand why he did it until a little while ago. He sells wrong button merchandise.

[@Hashslinging_25]

Everytime I try to get a Quetzal it finds the nearest ocean and then flies above it so he drowns himself if we knock him out do we have to wait

[@ai_zj]

bring an equus when taming a quetzal. bring it to shore with a lasso

[@patche736]

I tame a 145 quetz because it flew in between to rocks and got stuck on ground level so I hit it with a equus to knock it out

[@jackweaver4692]

lol

[@hamncheese633]

Patché what luck

[@Januwah]

What level were you?

[@paulsingleterry1604]

did we ever find out what level he was?

[@sanjoypal6917]

But they fly so high, how can they reach ground level?

[@sharkforce8147]

if you make one of the foundations a hatch instead, you should be able to access the platform saddle (and therefore the quetz's inventory) a little more easily. also, while you covered how to get a quetz here, i'm not fully convinced you showed off how to use them... i would almost describe this as being like a part 1 of 2 on the quetzal, because it isn't quite as straightforward as, say, an anky (find metal, bash metal). the platform saddle gives you enough pieces to make some interesting and useful structures, some of which can be a little bit finicky.

[@andrestrejo3660]

Thanks for the hatch frame tip, helps a lot

[@nikolaskeel1198]

Thanks, man. I'm not new to Ark, but I switched to singplayer within a few weeks of having it. I've pretty much ignored the Quetz for a year because of all the problems I was having with my attempts. I didn't know I could do all this. It'll come in handy now that I'm starting over to run all the maps in order. Oh, and your kibble vids helped a lot. Another thing I neglected for convenience.

[@dylanharper7899]

Was looking for 1 for a day and a half then watched this video and found him in a minute

[@smallblockchevyman]

Just got my first quetzal,lol it's a level7 tek,got him with a wyvern standing on his back hovering and shooting with a crossbow. I gotta learn to watch these videos before the animal is unconscious

[@Asertix357]

Yeah wyverns are pretty damn decent for taming quetzals.

[@mataschmata]

update: this method works, but the trap needs to be 3 walls high or the wild quetzal cant get in.

[@ollie9321]

This is on a non dedicated and a little boosted to make it fair because we were a 3 man tribe. Me and my tribemate were just coming back from the snow biome after taming a rhino (we were on a Tapejara btw) and we saw one of these beasts... I had a longneck with just regular tranq darts and my friend had a crossbow. My friend could not fly though... I took him up to it and he shot it, but hit me and almost knocked me out so I picked him up, we were around red ob and we’re heading to herbivore (our home) so there was quite a lot of water. We got it out and luckily there was a dead carno there, so we got prime and some normal meat and luckily I had tons and tons of narcotics, after about half an hour we got it... We called him “troop transport” because it could take our dinos to different places and gave it a black and blue bionic costume

[@SirChris]

I was chasing a quetz on ragnarok in the snow with a crossbow and it got wedged in some rocks but it was like -70 Celsius there so I had to stand far away shooting it where it was warmer. My crossbow also broke and I had to finish it with a primitive bow

[@themagicalonionfairy7455]

on ragnarok getting these guys is easy because you just gotta get a griffin and then every other flier is easily accessible to you

[@LtRandyrew]

Just a spot of advice you don't have to add the final walls of the Quetzal cage after you have the Quetzal caught. Whilst moving the Quetz platform is ethereal allowing you to just fly through a Quezt, stop and the building pieces become solid again leaving the Quetz stuck, not a lot simpler but helps a bit.

[@kugaththeplaguefather6332]

His intro never gets old

[@rednarok]

Grappled on an argy with a rifle isn't "very very effective" the bird is always getting entangled and sometimesjust flies in circles.

[@r4gnar0x80]

Old com but i gotta say it ITS SO INTENSE❤

[@mikoonblitz5966]

Might be late by a year but Doing this method is fun

[@user-qq9ku9sv3n]

phlinger thank you for making this video you helpt me out a lot , i use the method with the tapejara and it works i tame quetzal

[@Cortaxify]

Good to know the old tactics still work. Just coming back from a loong break and was worried the cage on quetzl back wouldn't work and that they had patched it somehow. Realized how much I relied on the platform saddle in the good old days to transport new tames now when I don't have any after just coming back...just flying over all those rexes, raptors and other predators makes bringing new tames home alive so much easier.

[@keegan9711]

Like your vids. Also, I'm taming a quetz as the vid came out. You can also use the back of a griffin, or a glider. It makes it harder, though

[@jupiter9049]

L

[@bobsaidhi3theking307]

I love your tips A: Ark B: Basic C: Control

[@thegametroll6264]

I did my first wild tame on one not long ago. I followed it from the ground, shooting it when I had the chance with shock tranqs. It eventually fell and I was able to tame it. Thank goodness it didn't land in the water.

[@perineum6]

Always put some raw meat (or berries if that's what it eats) on the tame with the kibble so they don't eat all the kibble. Also, the capture box works way better with the opening on the front of the box, like a scoop. Fly straight at it and scoop them in.

[@goobgaming564]

io would recommend bringing either dino gates or behemoth gates to surround it when it is knocked out

[@Dark_Knight82737]

Thanks for the help I now have a level 10 tek quetzal

[@TarisRedwing]

Amazing how easy it is once I got a male Tapijara to aggro to me with a rare flower then bolo them instead of chasing them around shooting at them as they run away. Then it was as easy as you showed with a few whistle commands and bang my first Quetz was down.

[@lmagine091]

I kept trying to switch the whistling on the Tapejara, but everytime I would whistle to attack, he would turn away from the Quetzal and start pecking at nothing. I tried switching setting on the Tapejara but keeps doing the same thing.

[@fozzy117]

Thanks again Phlinger, you rock yo!

[@outofcompliance1639]

As another commenter states, 3 walls high works, 2 doesn't. Also, Phlinger doesn't show what happens when you get one stuck in the cage: Once you start shooting it, it will turn and try to get out. No problem if you wall up the holes. Once knocked out you can't move or it will slip off and fall to the ground where you can tame it if it doesn't drop in the water or gets attacked. Also, the trap door in place of a foundation is a good idea too.

[@lick28]

The quetz platform saddle is actually that dirt cheap? I need to get one of those

[@RIP2UALL]

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap

[@herechickens1809]

Funny valentine

[@IMNOTtheetiger]

Idk why but ive tamed all my dinos out in the open. Guess ive just been lucky

[@tomsimpkins1211]

Reset my maps a few days ago, completely forgot how to get these guys... Thanks Phlinger!

[@potatoe2317]

An easy way to do it is get an argent or pteradon any flyer jump off their back and shoot them while you have a parachute deployed

[@rexfinn7021]

I alread have one and I am still watching this

[@missmisa039]

Lol the fact. The fact that my first base was basically at 5050 is pretty funny

[@jsnxjsjsjnannandnndkdnfnnz9328]

You could also use a griffin to knock it out because you can shoot off the back of them

[@valentinacolmenares3897]

Go CC Go! Yeah but is really hard because is not that steady

[@anthonyhi6517]

And Griffins are only on ranrock

[@JoseLopez-fh8tp]

Use meat or prime meat but with smoothing balm.

[@grantkendrick277]

Using your solo settings I finally found a decent quetzal- lvl 130 just SE of Giga mountain. I’ve seen a couple up there on different play througha

[@elijahtyler9247]

Love the basic series

[@muiscnight]

My favorite dinosaur maybe one day Ill find one I started a week ago

[@michaelg8841]

This is the tutorial for when you are lonely

[@LuciusC]

Yeah I had to tame one of these things in beta, I think it was before the tapejara was even a thing... but hey, parachutes are fun too!

[@bravemistakes3812]

It can kill alphas solo no matter the level depending on the distance you have from said alpha....best to jack HP into the quetz with movement speed also

[@arulsantoshi3750]

you cant upgrade movement speed on a quetzal

[@aja8714]

Arul Santoshi you used to be able to on any flyer

[@zareptil5441]

@@arulsantoshi3750 you can enable it tho

[@skezeksskybreaker5425]

What are your feelings on taming a first Quetzal with a high level Griffin, I play on console.

[@spencerfuller149]

Griffins are the best creatures for taming quetzals (other than quetzals of course) because they can be controlled easily and you don't have to worry about hitting the quetzal during the tame.

[@yozza4978]

Each time i got my first quetzal, i found it near to a mountain and i shot it from the ground then chased it until it passed by another high point then jumped off my mount and shot it again until it eventually came down.

[@kylecallahan5770]

Just want to point out that he almost always recommends kibble and I've never used it never had a problem taming things doesn't even take that long. Kibble takes more patience and time then the tame it self in my opinion.

[@kylecallahan5770]

Doesn't save anytime when I have to gather everything for a type of kibble and look up how to make it. Vs just taming it right then and there defending it.

[@kylecallahan5770]

@Jonathan .Rodriguez I guess if you want to the extra levels don't hurt.

[@michaelmeyer-palmer3659]

I personally prefer the Rock Drake for utility though my personal mount is a Rock Golem built for speed in an attempt to compensate for its sluggishness. As for small mounts, the Tek ATV.

[@skezeksskybreaker5425]

If you are going for exotic mounts and true utility, I would have to say the Phoenix would be one of the best mounts to have overall. Just have an Argent or 2 on folow.

[@ceciliarenita6031]

I think a good way would be if you make a trap with two chambers. One for the quetzal and a chamber for you that’s completely closed up. Then u eat a rare flower and made it follow you into the trap. So let’s say u find a quetz. U set up the trap which is a big doorframe/behemoth gate trap connected to the 2x2x house. You fly up to the quetz with ur bird and eat a rare flower. You then fly down and dismount and stand at the entrance of the trap. Then lure the quetz in and shut the gate behind it. Boom 🤯

[@Shane-The-Pain]

Quetzals are immune to rare flower pheromones effect.

[@ceciliarenita6031]

@@Shane-The-Pain srsly? U learn smth new every day :/

[@niknostalgia]

Drink a shot each time he says "Uuuumm..."

[@kvjbreaker7054]

No thanks, I like my liver

[@AndreiYoLo]

first time i used a tactic and see a quenzel was like this: pteranodon, a gun, darts, parachute, glider. Was above my base so: 3 in game days : jump from pteranodon, open glider , shot quenzel , open parachute , wait for pteranodon to come , jump on his back and repeat :)))))) BUT HEY was fun and doing that i had 2, after i made them mate and had eggs i rise a lot of them and sell young adults for silica pearls. Good times...

[@wilberator9608]

Sure rare flowers don't work on quetzals, but you could still use one to lure predators away after it has passed out.

[@vK9SA]

If you’re on Ragnarok use a griffin just fly into the quetzals head and shoot it

[@epicsheep496]

So shortly after taming the quetzal, I saw another in the sky above my base. I got all the supplies, including the platform saddle and stimberries, and was ready to go tame it. However, I couldn't find my first quetzal. After searching for about 10 minutes, I realized the quetzal high in the sky was mine :\

[@lxdyreliant4467]

I don't use kibble, ever.

[@blobfishiant8487]

Is there any merit to just shooting off the back of a griffin to tame one of these?

[@Pr0t4t067]

I dont know if you said this but one spawns near the mountain in the red woods

[@TheArkEnigma_InfamousAlien184]

The quetzal photo looks like a good boi

[@ReleasedHollow]

It's just sad that you cant find the colors like in the dossier, I've never found a Quetz those colors.

[@alvinandchipmucks5834]

I use tapjara and bow or longneck I change my seat and put target on quet and start taming

[@SomeAverageDude731]

I had to restart my game because my female taming was ruined by 3 allosauruses. After that, i never saw one ever again. I found a male one but im working to get the tranquility dart.

[@Search_OP09]

Im looking all over

[@matthewb8276]

Can I use an ascendant crossbow??

[@spaceburrito7975]

It can work, usually shocking tranq darts is better but use what you have!

[@kiwi9065]

AYE , LISTEN HERE get a Tapejara , fly to the west of the island If you spot a Quetzal land your Tapejara on the Nearest ground with No trees , Trees are just gonna Block your sight. Hold E on your Tapejara , Sit on the Front seat and let your tapejara Attack the quetzal while you're sitting on the front with a Crossbow or a Longneck. The Tapejara will follow the Quetz and you will shoot it with an Tranq weapon. I tamed my first one like this.

[@spikerobitza738]

i knock dawn a quetzal with a bow on a tapejara

[@anthonyhi6517]

Lvl 21 quetz I found I NEED IT it keeps getting over the water it's that Bay on the far West of the map near the red obelisk

[@joshuagale5363]

Anthony Hi spook it so it flys elsewhere that is safer

[@anthonyhi6517]

@@joshuagale5363 my tapejara is to strong;-;

[@sizzlespider7143]

I think a griffin is honestly the easiest method, cause you can shoot while controlling your mount

[@slovan01]

What does a poor lystrosarus have to do with that tame? It’s harmless

[@waynerhead7007]

Brings in meat eaters which then agros on your tame

[@anthonyhi6517]

And then your lvl 150 quetzal is dead

[@megananium1149]

wait wait wait so your key u use to collect resources and ride stuff is s how do u walk backwards?

[@zagzyg2914]

He's a lefty, uses the numpad for movement

[@spawnof200]

is actually possible to solo quetzal with wingsuit and pteranodon

[@Byte_frst7]

In ark mobile its easy to tame that by just killing it and getting the creature implant then going into an obelisk then you build a taming pan or cage on it so when you resurect it you can now tame it easy

[@anthonygamez8103]

So freaking smart why didn’t I think of that. Idc if I’m a year late.

[@Byte_frst7]

@@anthonygamez8103 ok............ Why did you even bother replying.

[@anthonygamez8103]

@@Byte_frst7 idk

[@KingKajiit]

At 12:22 he says "I think we're good," but there is literally a spino right there.

[@slenderman4788]

Which is not really a big threat since a Spino's aggro range is very short and even so it's too far away.

[@Vitor-cg3pq]

The most dangerous thing when taming a quetzal is not rexes, not spinos, not carnos, is water

[@chipmarks5247]

Excellent video, but I prefer to just use the handy "download" button when crafting. Lots less running around 🙃

[@Ahyaan2009]

I tamed a Quetzel today I shot it three times in the head when I knocked it out it was level nine

[@mosesmartin5962]

What were u shooting it with?😄

[@Ahyaan2009]

A journeyman rifle

[@DuckiBoiHasPizza]

@@Ahyaan2009 what is the damage? I also have a purple longneck

[@Ahyaan2009]

Idk

[@Ahyaan2009]

Nikola Miletic I’m not really sure it’s been a while since I’ve been on arkBy the way I subscribed

[@winningface897]

Quetzal is the lord of the skies

[@Nullsaque]

I feel like Griffins would work too

[@adrianarvd7891]

I first saw a quetzal it was in the air up high I followed I and it landed on the ground and it laid an egg. I grabbed the egg but then it attacked me so I ran to my level 140 argyle and flew away it followed me and I was gna kill it but there was my big taming pin for griffins and I led it into it and left it in there till I got my tranq darts and knocked it out when I got back and then I learned and crafted a saddle. Boy when I found out it could lift lots of different dino like a therazino and trike I knew we were gonna be best friends

[@imnotian5891]

Quetzals dont land

[@imnotian5891]

Or lay eggs in the wild

[@Idreeskhan-ld9yg]

Phlinger good videos as usual

[@William8819-y5k]

Will all those methods work on a console?

[@guycohen4403]

Wow this is an amazing strategy

[@-Gthepro]

Thx i have been looking for a good tutorial for a solo tame

[@goldie3004]

Use a snow owl and freeze it then trap it with dino gates

[@-Gthepro]

Thx for telling me that

[@TheCapedKnight-05]

Best way (in my opinion) is to find a quetzal at the snow mountain so that he doesn’t even get close to 50 50

[@quentinreza5576]

my friend and I did them on a back of a griffin and that worked easily

[@fenox528]

I've tried the whistling method so many times now. With argies, pteras and tapejaras. But for me the whistle attack this target" only works when we're really high in the sky far away from anything. As soon as we're even remotely close to the ground or trees it doesn't follow the quetzal. The whistle hits the quetzal and my bird attacks...but instead of going towards the quetzal it goes opposite way or just starts spinning in circles and attacking the air. I've tried changing the target and follow distances but nothing works

[@l00tgoblin37]

I was flying on my pteranodon and a Rex under me was going and killing everything and it bit a pteranodon(or so I though) but it started flying away and it was huge and it was a quetzal

[@zachgoeb918]

This was the best method ever!!!

[@DAVETHEDINO4319]

Ascendant clubs and ascended mantis saddle and mantis with good stats can knock out anything😂

[@kugaththeplaguefather6332]

Mine dropped down in the swamp.

[@djent463]

He should make one about griffins

[@Asertix357]

I'm breeding up a quetzal with 11K health, 2,840 stamina, 1.5K weight, and 856 melee. How much stamina is recommended, how much weight is recommended for general travel purposes?

[@imspooky2997]

I was trying to tame a 140 quetzal on ragnarock it wasn’t to far from my base in the highlands I went after it with my griffin it flew through the snow biome and straight towards a ice wyvern so I had to go back to my base get my tropical crystal wyvern kill the ice wyvern go back get my griffin go back knock it out and tame it then I found a 145 giga and after that I went to the savanna and tamed five thylas it was a very productive day that was about a week ago

[@DivineTontongon]

I think i would use a bunch of rare flowers for this to use a Very strong equees

[@swordam1063]

I thought you used a tapejara for taming the 150

[@tapoemt3995]

He did in Season 4 Soloing the Ark

[@xenshaxiii1339]

Does the taming trap still work? Every time I try, the quetz just flies thru it.

[@jayman_g1215]

could a acendent crossbow work for most tames plz tell me what that will work with like a list cause i have a acendent crossbow so yeah

[@GloomyTTV]

an easier cage is a 2x2 foundations with 4 dino gateways :)

[@pranker199171]

Argy and rare flower

[@anthonyhi6517]

Rf doesn't work