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[Soapalope]

Time to drop some dwarfs from 30 z-levels up?

Blood for the Blood God, anyone?

[LilGunmanX]

This is totally ingenious! Floating war dog dispenser is the best idea I've head in awhile, as are hanging cages for prisoners.

Well, except instead of war dogs I would probably use rutherers or draltha. Somehow I always wind up with a lot of those.

[Qwernt]

So, I don't see grates on this list... going to have to go try it.  If grates can float & support wagons, magma trapps just got cooler (float bridges of grates).

[QuantumMenace]

Unfortunately grates won't float, and fortifications or bridges won't hold them up either.

Another finding: paved roads can float and are walkable.

[shadowclasper]

Somebody needs to put these findings up on the wiki >>

[Urist Da Vinci]

More results:

I was able to float a chain (restraint), however the puppy attached to it didn't want to walk around.

You can't float supports. They check for edge support and cause cave-ins. This makes sense, as you can't float walls either.

[CapnUrist]

I imagine anything that can cause a cave-in by being removed will refuse to float, as they constantly check for support. However, I'm definitely going to be using this. I imagine wave-triggering spike traps should be absolutely gorgeous.

[Mechanoid]

Remember when you could dig downward staircases in the floor that a workshop occupied? I think if workshops manage to float like these other things do, we could get those glorious days back with constructed ramps. (too lazy to check this myself)

[Firnagzen]

Floodgates float, by the way. You can have that massive, multiple z-level gate you've always wanted, and other dastardly plans that have stewed in the back of my twisted mind for millenia untold.

[NSQuote]

You could theoretically create a floating fortresses out of drawbridges, since they can be used as both walls and floors.

I think I know what my first megaproject will be.

[QuantumMenace]

How did you get a constructed ramp to float?

[Urist Da Vinci]

You could theoretically create a floating fortresses out of drawbridges, since they can be used as both walls and floors.

Yes, good idea.

Constructed ramps float as well

A section of the cavern has collapsed! It's a construction, and checks for support.

ramps ... work when next to adjacent walls (according to the wiki). Drawbridges create walls, so...

Only real walls can be used by ramps. Creatures won't willingly walk onto floodgates, trees, or "bridge walls", but if they fall on them by accident, they can step off onto an adjacent floor.

[NSQuote]

You could theoretically create a floating fortresses out of drawbridges, since they can be used as both walls and floors.

Yes, good idea.

Constructed ramps float as well

A section of the cavern has collapsed! It's a construction, and checks for support.

ramps ... work when next to adjacent walls (according to the wiki). Drawbridges create walls, so...

Only real walls can be used by ramps. Creatures won't willingly walk onto floodgates, trees, or "bridge walls", but if they fall on them by accident, they can step off onto an adjacent floor.

Yeah, I tried my test again, and I probably had a support I didn't notice still up somewhere. It didn't work with fortifications either (killed  a dwarf from a one z level drop, brutally wounded the others that were deconstructing.
 
You can't support buildings with bridges either (where did I get that idea?), so I guess Dwarves can't really live (productively) on the floating plane of bridges and roads.

How did you get a constructed ramp to float?

By the power of sleep deprivation and supports I didn't notice magic, of course.

[martinuzz]

This thread deserves a !!SCIENCE!! award, and a D for dwarfiness.
I'm heading off, going to make it rain goblins now.

EDIT: also, "it's raining cats and dogs" gets a whole new literal meaning

[NSQuote]

Prehaps one of those rising water chambers would work, as floodgates and bridges could seal up a chamber that slowly fills with water waterfalled from an unconnected source above the floating fortress, allowing the Dwarves inside to slowly ascend z-levels, with retracting bridges that close underneath the Dwarves, ensuing they continue rising up.

In order to get the Dwarves to leave the chamber (if they don't climb out onto bridges) you could have a floodgate seals the entrance to a "decompression room". When the floodgate is open, the water would flow out into the room, sweeping the dwarf from the "ascension chamber" into the room. After the Dwarf is in the room, the floodgates would seal once again, and a retracting bridge off to the side would open and allow the water to drain back down to the ground, where the external pump system could pump it back up to the top.

Everyone would naturally be adequate+ swimmers.

And as far as food goes, you could drawbridge-launch small animals into a drawbridge wall. Cage traps float, and animals are a renewable resource, so if you embarked with a sizeable number of animals or cage some livestock from the surface, you'd have near infinite food.