diff --git a/tesseract.lua b/tesseract.lua
index 05d6bfd..ab42236 100644
--- a/tesseract.lua
+++ b/tesseract.lua
@@ -381,9 +381,11 @@ local function trans_dig(pos, node, digger)
 	if not (pos and digger) then
 		return
 	end
-	-------------------------------------
-	-- This needs to check for protection.
-	-------------------------------------
+
+	if minetest.is_protected(pos, digger:get_player_name()) then
+		return
+	end
+
 	local meta = minetest.get_meta(pos)
 	local id = meta:get_string('id')
 	local data = { id = id }