diff --git a/python/src/endstone/_internal/bootstrap/base.py b/python/src/endstone/_internal/bootstrap/base.py
index 02134fd0e..420db3342 100644
--- a/python/src/endstone/_internal/bootstrap/base.py
+++ b/python/src/endstone/_internal/bootstrap/base.py
@@ -4,17 +4,19 @@
 import os
 import platform
 import shutil
+import site
 import subprocess
 import sys
+import tempfile
 import zipfile
 from pathlib import Path
-import tempfile
 from typing import Union
+
 import click
 import requests
+from endstone import __minecraft_version__ as minecraft_version
 from packaging.version import Version
 from rich.progress import Progress, TextColumn, BarColumn, DownloadColumn, TimeRemainingColumn
-from endstone import __minecraft_version__ as minecraft_version
 
 
 class Bootstrap:
@@ -217,12 +219,11 @@ def _create_process(self, *args, **kwargs) -> None:
             **kwargs: Arbitrary keyword arguments.
 
         """
-        user_base = str((self.plugin_path / ".local").resolve().absolute())
-        shutil.rmtree(user_base, ignore_errors=True)
+        prefix = str((self.plugin_path / ".local").resolve().absolute())
+        shutil.rmtree(prefix, ignore_errors=True)
 
         env = kwargs.pop("env", os.environ.copy())
-        env["PYTHONUSERBASE"] = user_base
-        env["PATH"] = os.pathsep.join(sys.path)
+        env["PATH"] = os.pathsep.join(site.getsitepackages(prefixes=[prefix]) + sys.path)
         env["PYTHONPATH"] = os.pathsep.join(sys.path)
         env["PYTHONIOENCODING"] = "UTF-8"
         self._process = subprocess.Popen(
diff --git a/python/src/endstone/_internal/plugin_loader.py b/python/src/endstone/_internal/plugin_loader.py
index e7c483427..76f68e22e 100644
--- a/python/src/endstone/_internal/plugin_loader.py
+++ b/python/src/endstone/_internal/plugin_loader.py
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 import glob
 import importlib
+import os
 import os.path
 import site
-import os
 import subprocess
 import sys
-from importlib_metadata import entry_points, metadata
 from typing import List
+
 from endstone import Server
 from endstone.command import Command
 from endstone.permissions import Permission, PermissionDefault
 from endstone.plugin import PluginDescription, PluginLoader, Plugin, PluginLoadOrder
+from importlib_metadata import entry_points, metadata
 
 __all__ = ["PythonPluginLoader"]
 
@@ -81,7 +82,8 @@ def load_plugins(self, directory) -> List[Plugin]:
                     "pip",
                     "install",
                     file,
-                    "--user",
+                    "--prefix",
+                    os.path.join(directory, ".local"),
                     "--quiet",
                     "--no-warn-script-location",
                     "--disable-pip-version-check",