diff --git a/eventstore/lmdb/query.go b/eventstore/lmdb/query.go
index 8cb6f75..133a11f 100644
--- a/eventstore/lmdb/query.go
+++ b/eventstore/lmdb/query.go
@@ -14,13 +14,19 @@ import (
 
 func (b *LMDBBackend) QueryEvents(filter nostr.Filter, maxLimit int) iter.Seq[nostr.Event] {
 	return func(yield func(nostr.Event) bool) {
-		if filter.Search != "" {
-			return
+		if filter.IDs != nil {
+			// when there are ids we ignore everything else and just fetch the ids
+			if err := b.lmdbEnv.View(func(txn *lmdb.Txn) error {
+				txn.RawRead = true
+				return b.queryByIds(txn, filter.IDs, yield)
+			}); err != nil {
+				log.Printf("lmdb: unexpected id query error: %s\n", err)
+			}
 		}
 
-		if filter.IDs != nil {
-			// do a special id query
-			// TODO
+		// ignore search queries
+		if filter.Search != "" {
+			return
 		}
 
 		// max number of events we'll return
@@ -33,13 +39,42 @@ func (b *LMDBBackend) QueryEvents(filter nostr.Filter, maxLimit int) iter.Seq[no
 			maxLimit = filter.Limit
 		}
 
-		b.lmdbEnv.View(func(txn *lmdb.Txn) error {
+		// do a normal query based on various filters
+		if err := b.lmdbEnv.View(func(txn *lmdb.Txn) error {
 			txn.RawRead = true
 			return b.query(txn, filter, maxLimit, yield)
-		})
+		}); err != nil {
+			log.Printf("lmdb: unexpected query error: %s\n", err)
+		}
 	}
 }
 
+func (b *LMDBBackend) queryByIds(txn *lmdb.Txn, ids []nostr.ID, yield func(nostr.Event) bool) error {
+	for _, id := range ids {
+		idx, err := txn.Get(b.indexId, id[0:8])
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		txn.Get(b.rawEventStore, idx)
+		bin, err := txn.Get(b.rawEventStore, idx)
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		event := nostr.Event{}
+		if err := betterbinary.Unmarshal(bin, &event); err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		if !yield(event) {
+			return nil
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
 func (b *LMDBBackend) query(txn *lmdb.Txn, filter nostr.Filter, limit int, yield func(nostr.Event) bool) error {
 	queries, extraAuthors, extraKinds, extraTagKey, extraTagValues, since, err := b.prepareQueries(filter)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/eventstore/lmdb/query_planner.go b/eventstore/lmdb/query_planner.go
index fde0e7f..f8534e5 100644
--- a/eventstore/lmdb/query_planner.go
+++ b/eventstore/lmdb/query_planner.go
@@ -47,17 +47,6 @@ func (b *LMDBBackend) prepareQueries(filter nostr.Filter) (
 		}
 	}()
 
-	// if filter.IDs != nil {
-	// 	// when there are ids we ignore everything else
-	// 	queries = make([]query, len(filter.IDs))
-	// 	for i, id := range filter.IDs {
-	// 		prefix := make([]byte, 8)
-	// 		copy(prefix[0:8], id[0:8])
-	// 		queries[i] = query{i: i, dbi: b.indexId, prefix: prefix[0:8], keySize: 8}
-	// 	}
-	// 	return queries, nil, nil, "", nil, 0, nil
-	// }
-
 	// this is where we'll end the iteration
 	if filter.Since != 0 {
 		if fs := uint32(filter.Since); fs > since {