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[elf-fondling human]

In theory, you can build some objects on wall tiles and then delete the wall to make the object float. What if you were to build a 2-level wall, delete the bottom one, and build an entire fortress on the floating walls?

[Sphalerite]

Unfortunately, the only objects which you can make float in the air this way are the objects which aren't able to support anything.  If you build a 2-layer wall and then remove the lower wall, the upper wall will instantly cave in.  You can make buildings like doors, floodgates, chains, bridges, and a few others float, but you can't build anything based off those.

[elf-fondling human]

Well that's no fun...

[Minnakht]

Still, you can make a whole fortress on a single staircase made of ice or soap. That's close enough. Unless you can't build stairs out of soap. I know it works for walls, but who knows...

Or out of ash. Yes. Ash blocks, support your entire fortress on it, then put eight windmills around the ash staircase. If they're generating power, then... well...

[Gergination]

You could always just turn off Cave-ins in the init file.

[squeakyReaper]

You could always just turn off Cave-ins in the init file.

^this.  It's pretty easy to have things that permanently float like so.  And when you're done with the fort, turn it back on and suddenly the sky is falling.

[Lagslayer]

Make an ice fortress and then flood the map with magma.

[Lamphare]

but you can always build a fortress on one support.

[SirAaronIII]

Make an ice fortress and then flood the map with magma.

I thought constructions didn't burn/melt, even if they were immersed in magma and made of wood or ice.

[Deviled]

Make an ice fortress and then flood the map with magma.

I thought constructions didn't burn/melt, even if they were immersed in magma and made of wood or ice.

Dig it out

[Brandstone]

I think the top level of the sky still acts as a support if you really  want a floating fortress.

[Lagslayer]

I think the top level of the sky still acts as a support if you really  want a floating fortress.

Somewhere right now, a physicist is crying.

[Lamphare]

I think the top level of the sky still acts as a support if you really  want a floating fortress.

Somewhere right now, a physicist is crying.

no necessarily.
you could build something huge(but nearly weightless comparing to Earth, well that's hard), with its mass centre exactly at one of the Lagrange points, and its tip near earth surface. that's technically floating.

[elf-fondling human]

I think the top level of the sky still acts as a support if you really  want a floating fortress.

Somewhere right now, a physicist is crying.

no necessarily.
you could build something huge(but nearly weightless comparing to Earth, well that's hard), with its mass centre exactly at one of the Lagrange points, and its tip near earth surface. that's technically floating.

Featherwood would work

[Lamphare]

yes featherwood would
but in real time physics, even featherwood is too heavy
unless we are only building a rod no more thicker than baseball bat