I recently set up a server for my partner and I to play in through the official hosting. We love the homesteading and explorative bits of VS, but we also think the drifters are creepy and would rather play without them. The original handful of days they give you before monsters spawn have elapsed - I went poking around the site and found /worldconfig graceTimer [0-9999] on the List of Server Commands page, and I tried to set the timer to the full 9999, but it doesn't seem to be taking? I've exited and re-entered the game, and stopped-then-started the server, but they still spawn.
I've also given using /entity removebytype drifter-* a try, but the number of drifters it removes (and the number of them that comes up using /entity countg) changes from one second to the next, so I'm not sure I should expect that to do what I need. Am I doing something wrong? Do I have any other options?